Posts by Jun Rao

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It was originally developed at LinkedIn and became an Apache project in July, 2011. Today, Kafka is used by LinkedIn, Twitter, and Square for applications including log aggregation, queuing, and real time monitoring and event processing. In the upcoming version 0.8 release, Kafka will support...

Kafka is a distributed messaging system developed at LinkedIn for collecting and delivering high volumes of log data with low latency. Our system incorporates ideas from existing log aggregators and messaging systems, and is suitable for both offline and online message consumption. We recently announced the release of version 0.6. Today, we're happy to announce...