Kafka

Background

What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

- Wikipedia

Message Stream vs Message Queue

• Message queues and streaming brokers

• RabbitMQ vs. Kafka

• RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Head-To-Head

Other Readings

• Polyglot persistence - definition and examples