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Apache Kafka is a real-time streaming platform designed for building complex data pipelines. Most commonly it serves as the backbone for real time processing of large streams of data; providing high throughput and scalability across a broad array of applications from real time integration through stream processing.

Apache Kafka works similarly to enterprise messaging systems in that it distributes information between different systems. Similar to these messaging systems, Kafka transfers data streams between servers in a cluster. Broker servers categorize incoming streams of information into topics before dispersing them across the cluster. Kafka software makes the data streams accessible by applications known as producers and consumers via a Java library called Kafka Streams, using queues to manage data flow. By doing this, Kafka is able to deliver transmitted information faster than any system can process it directly and also fulfills fault tolerance requirements of distributed systems requiring that information is stored and accessible even when one or more servers become unresponsive.

Kafka can handle terabytes of data at an efficient pace and store messages indefinitely – which makes it ideal for companies needing to analyze log data from multiple microservices for business intelligence, failure prediction or debugging purposes. Modern web apps generate thousands of log lines every second that can be easily integrated into Kafka’s data stream for data analytics.