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Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It is designed to handle high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and scalable data streams. Kafka is widely used for log aggregation, event sourcing, stream processing, and as a messaging system in modern data architectures.