Kafka¶
Apache Kafka Docs
Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used to collect, process, store, and integrate data at scale.
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Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect is a tool for scalably and reliably streaming data between Apache Kafka and other systems.
Kafka Clients
Clients make it fast and easy to produce and consume messages through Apache Kafka. Official Confluent clients are available for Java, along with librdkafka and derived clients.
Kafka Streams
Kafka Streams is a client library for building applications and microservices, where the input and output data are stored in an Apache Kafka cluster.
Kafka APIs
Apache Kafka provides APIs for Producer, Consumer, Streams, Connect, and Admin.
Kafka CLI Tools
The Kafka CLI tools enable you to start and stop Kafka, create and update topics, manage partitions and many more common operations.
Kafka Design
Apache Kafka is designed to be able to act as a unified platform for handling all the real-time data feeds a large company might have.
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Kafka Configuration Reference
Learn about the Apache Kafka configuration parameters.
Schema Registry
Schema Registry provides a serving layer for your metadata. It provides a RESTful interface for storing and retrieving your Avro®, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schemas.
Monitoring Kafka with JMX
Kafka brokers and Kafka clients expose metrics through Java Management Extensions (JMX).
