Mastering reactive event streaming with Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance pipelines of real-time data, delivered with low latency. Apache Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn, and later became open source. What is so powerful about Kafka is that it is easily accessible and resilient to system crashes.
Kafka’s real-time data processing makes it perfect for many use cases, like:
- User activity tracking – companies like Uber, Netflix, and Spotify use Kafka to monitor user interactions, clicks, and page views.
- Event bus for microservices – Kafka can act as a message queue and help multiple microservices communicate and stay synchronized.
- Observability – Kafka can be easily integrated with observability tools to track the health and performance of the system, as well as process and analyze error data. Cloudflare uses Kafka for analytics purposes. ...
