It has been seven years since we first set out to create the distributed streaming platform we know now as Apache Kafka®. Born initially as a highly scalable messaging system, Apache Kafka has evolved over the years into a full-fledged distributed streaming platform for publishing and subscribing, storing, and processing streaming data at scale and in real-time. Since we first open-sourced Apache
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