Distributed streaming platform for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. Like a high-speed highway system for data that can handle millions of messages per second.
Financial trading platforms use Kafka to process millions of market data updates and trade orders in real-time.
Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform. AWS offers a managed Kafka service (MSK). Azure Event Hubs, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and OCI Streaming are Kafka-like managed event streaming services; Azure Event Hubs also supports Kafka protocol clients. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Kafka offering available on major clouds.