What is Kafka?

Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform developed by LinkedIn for processing real-time data streams. It can handle large-scale data streams, with features like high availability, fault tolerance, high throughput, persistence, scalability, and fault tolerance, making it an ideal choice for handling large-scale real-time data streams. Kafka is commonly used for constructing real-time data pipelines, log aggregation, metric calculations, and other real-time data processing scenarios.