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title: Apache Kafka
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Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used worldwide.
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# Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.


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# Core capabilities

Kafka boasts core capabilities that are battle tested and ready to power businesses in the digital world.

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Deliver messages at network limited throughput using a cluster of machines with latencies as low as 2ms.
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# Trust and Ease of Use

Kafka is simple to use and is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world.


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Read, write and process streams of events in a vast array of programming languages.
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