# Apache Kafka

> Distributed event streaming platform

- Category: [Data Engineering](https://ailandscape.org/category/data-engineering) › Data Processing
- Homepage: https://kafka.apache.org
- Repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka
- Tags: streaming, messaging
- Added to the landscape: 2026-03-18

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