At the core of Confluent Platform is Apache Kafka, the most popular open source distributed streaming platform. The key capabilities of Kafka are:
- Publish and subscribe to streams of records
- Store streams of records in a fault tolerant way
- Process streams of records
It is used by hundreds of companies for a variety of use cases, including collecting user activity data, system logs, application metrics, stock ticker data, and device instrumentation signals.
The key components of the Kafka open source project are Kafka Brokers and Kafka Java Client APIs.
