What is Kafka used for?
Kafka is a distributed streaming platform originally developed by LinkedIn. It is used to build real-time data pipelines and streaming data processing applications. Kafka is known for its high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance, allowing it to handle large-scale data streams and provide features such as persistent storage, data replication, and stream data processing. It is commonly used for building real-time data processing systems, log aggregation, event-driven architectures, and other similar scenarios.