More than 80% of all Fortune 100 companies trust, and use Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high …

Sep 2, 2025 · Kafka 4.1.0 includes a significant number of new features and fixes. For more information, please read our blog post, the detailed Upgrade Notes and the Release Notes.

Kafka is a distributed system consisting of servers and clients that communicate via a high-performance TCP network protocol. It can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual …

Kafka abstracts away the details of files and gives a cleaner abstraction of log or event data as a stream of messages. This allows for lower-latency processing and easier support for multiple …

The Connector API allows building and running reusable producers or consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data systems. For example, a connector to a relational …

We use Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams to enable our developers to access data freely in the company. Kafka Streams powers parts of our analytics pipeline and delivers endless …

In this quickstart we'll see how to run Kafka Connect with simple connectors that import data from a file to a Kafka topic and export data from a Kafka topic to a file.

Apache Kafka is used for both real-time and batch data processing, and is the chosen event log technology for Amadeus microservice-based streaming applications. Kafka is also used for …

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Notably, in Kafka 4.0, Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams require Java 11, while Kafka Brokers, Connect, and Tools, now require Java 17. This release also updates the minimum supported …