Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform
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Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2007) to 113 mentions (2026)
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Homebrew analytics installs: 1,163 installs (2026) to 485 installs (2026)
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Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 10.55 % of respondents (2022) to 10.92 % of respondents (2024)
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Wikipedia pageviews: 8,925 views (2015) to 8,506 views (2026)
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About Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that enables high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Developers use it to process streams of events with capabilities including joins, aggregations, filters, and transformations. The platform is designed for high throughput with low latencies and can scale to handle trillions of messages per day across large clusters. It provides permanent storage in a distributed, fault-tolerant cluster with high availability across geographic regions.
Apache Kafka is developed by the Apache Software Foundation and LinkedIn. The platform is built with Java and Scala and runs cross-platform. It is distributed under the Apache Software License 2.0. The ecosystem includes Kafka Connect for integrating with external systems and Kafka Streams for stream processing, along with client libraries for multiple programming languages.
Checked 23 October 2026.