Kafka combines three key capabilities so you can implement your use cases for event streaming end-to-end with a single battle-tested solution:
* To publish (write) and subscribe to (read) streams of events, including continuous import/export of your data from other systems.
* To store streams of events durably and reliably for as long as you want.
* To process streams of events as they occur or retrospectively.
And all this functionality is provided in a distributed, highly scalable, elastic, fault-tolerant, and secure manner. Kafka can be deployed on bare-metal hardware, virtual machines, and containers, and on-premises as well as in the cloud. You can choose between self-managing your Kafka environments and using fully managed services offered by a variety of vendors.
