Apache Kafka Open-Sourced

Name: Apache Kafka Open-Sourced
Start: 2011-01-01
Location: LinkedIn, Palo Alto, California, USA

Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao at LinkedIn open-sourced Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform designed for high-throughput, low-latency data feeds.

Significance

This laid the foundational technology that Amazon MSK would eventually manage. Without Kafka's open-source release, there would be no MSK.

Key facts

Date: 2011-01-01
Type: release
Location: LinkedIn, Palo Alto, California, USA