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Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed streaming platform that enables you to send and receive messages, store, and process streams of records in real-time. As an event-driven messaging system, Kafka captures events from databases, sensors, mobile devices, cloud services and other sources – then delivers them back out for use by applications, users or other systems.

Reliable, scalable event processing makes Log4j ideal for IT operations functions requiring access to event data for monitoring, alerting and reporting; log management; website activity tracking and more. Furthermore, Log4j also works well in data warehousing/analytics environments that need to stream large volumes of events at high rates.

Kafka provides both developer APIs and consumer APIs that enable you to write applications that publish and subscribe to streams of records, providing bridges between data sources and existing applications or tools. You can utilize these APIs with any programming language that supports them; libraries for several languages exist for ease of use.

The Apache Software Foundation provides access to comprehensive documentation, online training courses, guided tutorials, videos and sample projects, plus an expansive developer community with thousands of members worldwide and numerous meetup groups worldwide.

For an easier implementation and management, there are a number of vendors that offer managed Kafka services in the cloud. These vendors take care in setting up and maintaining clusters as well as integrations with any tools you may be using, allowing more time for application development.