Apache Kafka
MLOps & Infrastructure
Overview
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It provides publish-subscribe messaging, durable storage, stream processing, and high-throughput, low-latency data movement. Kafka is the backbone of many enterprise data architectures, supporting event-driven systems, real-time analytics, and microservices communication.
- Pricing model
- Free
- Deployment
- Self-hosted / on-premises, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Process automation, Free, MLOps & Infrastructure, Software & technology, Self-hosted / on-premises, Predictive / classical ML, Horizontal platform, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
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Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- kafka.apache.org
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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