Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform boasting:

High throughput
High availability
Scalable

It is widely used across many industries to support data pipelines, streaming analytics and more.

v1 - Jan 17, 2024

As part of the ESS-in-kind work ISIS developed a data streaming architecture for experimental data based on Kafka. A similar system has been implemented at ISIS with experimental data being published to Kafka topics. It is for this reason it has been placed in adopt.