Apache Kafka

Kafka, named after that famous czech writer, is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. Why is it so popular? Because it enables storing, managing, and processing of streams of data in a fault-tolerant way and supposedly ‘wicked fast’. Given that social network environment deals with streams of data, Kafka is currently very popular.

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