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Apache Kafka is a community distributed event streaming technology capable of handling trillions of events a day. Initially conceived as a messaging queue, Kafka is based on an abstraction of a distributed commit log. Since being created and open sourced by LinkedIn in 2011, Kafka has quickly evolved from messaging queue to a full-fledged event streaming platform.

Founded by the original developers of Apache Kafka, Confluent provides the industry's only fully managed, cloud-native data streaming platform with Confluent Cloud. Built around Kafka, Confluent Cloud provides teams with a complete platform for connecting and processing all of their data in order to securely and reliably deliver the real-time experiences today's businesses need.

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Used by over 70% of the Fortune 500, Apache Kafka has become the foundational platform for data in motion, but self-supporting the open source project puts you in the business of managing low-level data infrastructure. That’s why modern businesses choose Confluent, so they can keep their focus where it matters. With Kafka at its core, Confluent offers a more complete, cloud-native platform to set your data in motion, available everywhere your data and applications reside.

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