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= About Kafka

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed publish-subscribe messaging system for fault-tolerant real-time data feeds.

For more information about Apache Kafka, see the {kafkaDoc}.

include::../../modules/overview/con-kafka-concepts-key.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
include::../../modules/overview/con-kafka-concepts-producers-consumers.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
