Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing Jay Kreps LinkedIn Corp. Narkhede LinkedIn Corp. Rao LinkedIn Corp. ABSTRACT Log Processing has become a critical component of the data pipeline for consumer internet companies. We introduce Kafka, a Distributed Messaging System that we developed for collecting and delivering high volumes of log data with low latency. Our System incorporates ideas from existing log aggregators and Messaging systems, and is suitable for both offline and online message consumption. We made quite a few unconventional yet practical design choices in Kafka to make our System efficient and scalable.

aggregator developed by Cloudera. It supports extensible “pipes” and “sinks”, and makes streaming log data very flexible. It also has more integrated distributed support. However, most of those systems are built for consuming the log data offline, and often expose implementation details unnecessarily (e.g. “minute files”) to the ...

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