What is kafka? how to implement it

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Kafka is a distributed streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.

Kafka is designed to handle high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and scalable real-time data streams.
It uses topics to categorize data streams, producers publish messages to topics, and consumers subscribe to topics to process messages.
Kafka can be implemented using Kafka APIs in Java, Scala, or other programming languages.
Zookeeper is used for managing Kafka cluster and maintaining metadata.
Kafka Connect can be used for integrating Kafka with external systems like databases or Hadoop.
Kafka Streams API allows building real-time stream processing applications on top of Kafka.

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