Benchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second (On Three Cheap Machines) I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn uses Apache Kafka as a central publish-subscribe log for integrating data between applications, stream processing, and Hadoop data ingestion. To actually make this work, though, this "universal log" has to be a cheap abstraction. If you want to use a system as a central data hub
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