AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is Apache Kafka?
Apache Kafka (also called Kafka): A distributed platform that stores streams of events in durable, ordered logs and lets many applications publish and read them at scale. It is widely used to connect systems and feed real-time pipelines.
Apache Kafka: an example
An e-commerce site publishes every click to Kafka, and separate services consume the same stream for search, fraud checks and analytics.
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Where you learn it
Apache Kafka is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.