Kafka Manual

A clean, searchable documentation and reference manual for Apache Kafka — the distributed event streaming platform used to publish, store, and process streams of events in real time.

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Introduction

What Kafka is, why event streaming matters, and the core building blocks.

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Quickstart

Download, start a broker, create a topic, and stream your first events in minutes.

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Design

Persistence, efficiency, replication, delivery semantics, and log compaction.

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Kafka Streams

Build stream-processing apps — KStream/KTable, joins, windowing, exactly-once.

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