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 …

Nov 12, 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 machines, and containers …

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.

Dec 19, 2025 · As with publish-subscribe, Kafka allows you to broadcast messages to multiple consumer groups. The advantage of Kafka’s model is that every topic has both these properties–it …

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 …

Dec 19, 2025 · Kafka Summit Join us at Kafka Summit Project Wiki Check out our project wiki Contributions welcome! We do a Pull Request contributions workflow on GitHub. New users are …

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 data sources …

Mar 18, 2025 · Apache Kafka 3.9.0 Release Announcement Wednesday, November 06, 2024 in Release Announcements We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.9.0. This is a …

Dec 19, 2025 · Since the Kafka protocol has changed over time, clients and servers need to agree on the schema of the message that they are sending over the wire. This is done through API versioning.