Architectures
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Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed streaming platform. Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn, and later donated to the Apache Foundation. Though there are other streaming technologies available, Kafka’s design is unique in that it is implemented as a distributed commit log.
Kafka is increasingly being adopted in high-throughput data streaming scenarios by companies such as Netflix and Uber. It is, of course, possible to install, run, and manage your own Kafka cluster; however, we would recommend that you take the serverless approach and adopt a system such as AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK).
