Posts by Neha Narkhede

Every year, LinkedIn hosts a meetup for Apache Kafka enthusiasts attending Hadoop Summit. Kafka is a high throughput messaging system rethought as a horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency commit log. Kafka was developed at LinkedIn a few years ago and is a top level Apache project with a growing community of more than 700 active members. LinkedIn has...

We are pleased to announce the first release of Kafka from the Apache incubator. Kafka is a distributed, persistent, high throughput messaging system for collecting and delivering a high volume of data with low latency. The 0.7.0 release adds compression and mirroring features. At LinkedIn, Kafka is primarily used for tracking the huge volume of activity events...

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and also submitted to be an Apache incubator project. A paper on this project was published in the NetDB ’11 conference. This system is aimed at providing a publish-subscribe solution that can handle all activity stream data and processing at LinkedIn....