Apache Kafka Event Streaming Server on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

Apache Kafka Features:

• Scalability - Handles scalability in all four dimensions, i.e. event producers, event processors, event consumers and event connectors. In other words, Kafka scales easily without downtime.
• High-Volume - Can work with huge volumes of data streams.
• Data Transformations - Kafka offers provision for deriving new data streams using the data streams from producers.
• Fault Tolerance - The Kafka cluster can handle failures with the masters and databases.
• Reliability - Distributed, partitioned, replicated and fault tolerant.
• Durability - Configurable automatic reply sent out when a new ticket is opened or a message is received.
• Performance - For both publishing and subscribing messages, Kafka has high throughput. Even if many TB of messages is stored, it maintains stable performance.
• Zero Downtime - Very fast and guarantees zero downtime and zero data loss.
• Extensibility - There are as many ways by which applications can plug in and make use of Kafka. Also, offers ways by which to write new connectors as needed.
• Replication - By using ingest pipelines, replicate the events