Kafka

Kafka was created by LinkedIn and was donated to Apache foundation in 2011. In October 2012, it graduated from Apache incubator.

Logo

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Website

http://kafka.apache.org/

Repository

https://github.com/apache/kafka

Byline

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.

License

Apache 2.0

Project age

11 years 4 months

Backers

Apache (Governed by), LinkedIn (Creator)

Size score (1 to 10, higher is better)

8.5

Trend score (1 to 10, higher is better)

5.0

Education Resources

URL

Resource Type

Description

https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/

Documentation

Official project documentation.

Git Commit Statistics

Statistics computed using Git data through November 30, 2022.

Statistic

Lifetime

Last 12 Months

Commits

56,744

11,438

Lines committed

15,556,421

2,907,546

Unique committers

1,204

217

Core committers

28

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