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Kafka

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What is Kafka?

Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant, high-throughput streaming platform. It is commonly used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications, enabling the reliable transport of data between systems or applications. It's used for collecting logs, stream processing, and integrating systems.

What other technologies are related to Kafka?

Kafka Competitor Technologies

RabbitMQ is a message broker like Kafka, often used for asynchronous communication and message queuing, making it a direct competitor in certain use cases.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 54% (55.3k) of relevant job posts
AWS Kinesis is a real-time data streaming service that competes with Kafka in the cloud.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 42% (18k) of relevant job posts
ActiveMQ is a message broker that competes with Kafka in certain use cases, particularly for traditional messaging patterns.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 57% (11.6k) of relevant job posts

Kafka Complementary Technologies

Spark is a distributed processing engine that can consume data from Kafka for real-time analytics and data processing.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 31% (95.7k) of relevant job posts
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that can be used to manage and scale Kafka clusters.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 16% (158.4k) of relevant job posts
Kafka is written in Java, and many Kafka clients and applications are built using Java.
mentioned alongside Kafka in 10% (223.1k) of relevant job posts

31% of Microservices Migration projects involve Kafka

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To develop a scalable cloud data warehouse that powers SQL analytics in Azure compute, utilizing technologies such as Azure Data Lake and Microsoft Fabric.
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To enhance operational efficiency by implementing intelligent automation technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA) and data transformation tools.
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To integrate Workday with multiple SAP HCM systems using integration platforms like ShapeIn to streamline HR processes.
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Developing services that leverage generative AI and foundation models to improve the experience of developers using AWS tools and services.
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To develop scalable data architectures and real-time data pipelines using technologies like Apache Airflow, Google Cloud Platform, and BigQuery to support AI/ML analytics.

Which organizations are mentioning Kafka?

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Apple
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