---
title: "Why you should learn Apache Kafka"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-learn-apache-kafka-pwzfwdarg
source_url: https://medium.com/@logeshvarl/why-you-should-learn-apache-kafka-1ac5175fdfa2
type: article
source: "Faun"
published: 2022-01-04T13:41:35.487Z
updated: 2022-01-04T13:41:35.488Z
tags: ["apache", "kafka"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 27
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Why you should learn Apache Kafka

**[Faun](https://daily.dev/sources/faun)** · 6 min read · 27 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Kafka is an event streaming platform. It is one of the most popular events streaming platforms used by various industry giants including NETFLIX, PayPal, Spotify, Twitter and Airbnb. Kafka has topics, to which the producers will push events and the end consumers will keep polling for new messages on that topic.

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