May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
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History of Kafka
Kafka was initially developed by an engineering team at LinkedIn and later released as an open source project with the Apache Software Foundation in early 2011. Kafka is LinkedIn’s messaging platform. The project went from incubation to top-level Apache project on October 23, 2012.
Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao are the founders of Kafka while working for LinkedIn’s engineering team. Jay Kreps has been a big fan of the famous writer Franz Kafka and found the name Kafka to be apt for this messaging platform, which is optimized for writing purposes (as quoted by Jay Kreps in Quora).
Kafka is primarily developed by keeping in mind some of the important new-generation messaging requirements like high-throughput, low-latency ...