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Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe, high-throughput, distributed messaging system. Kafka is fast with a single broker handling hundreds of MB (terabytes)/sec of reads and writes from several clients.

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Vohra, D. (2016). Apache Kafka. In: Practical Hadoop Ecosystem. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2199-0_9

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