Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that:

Lets you publish and subscribe to streams of records. In this respect it is similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system.
Lets you store streams of records in a fault-tolerant way.
Lets you process streams of records as they occur.

Installation

Install the kafka^AUR package.

Start kafka.service with systemctl which should also automatically enable/start zookeeper@kafka.service as well.

Usage

For usage see official documentation

Clients

C - librdkafka-git^AUR
Python - https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python
Php - php-rdkafka^AUR
Perl - perl6-pkafka^AUR