Real-Time Streaming Platforms

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is one of the most famous streaming platforms. It was created by LinkedIn initially and, after a few years, was donated to the Apache Foundation.

Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. We can use it as a real-time messaging system with a high fault tolerance capability. In other words, it means that our messages will be delivered fast, and if it fails, we can figure it out quickly. A message can be anything from a string, to a serialized object, to a blob.

Kafka is also very famous for its ...