# Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. Kafka can be used as an enterprise messaging system to decouple source and target systems to exchange data.

The *Kafka* plugin in Linx contains a *Kafka Service* to programmatically connect to a Kafka cluster (broker) to retrieve topic-based data for processing in Linx.

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### Links <a href="#links" id="links"></a>

[DZone: What is Kafka?](https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-kafka)

[kafka.apache.org](https://kafka.apache.org/)

[Kafka License](https://docs.linx.software/reference/plugins/kafka/license)