From b8acf5fded2b5349a4d6bdc9d9f885ae98fc791f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GradientBooster <144033691+aditya0589@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:28:46 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Enhance README with improved Kafka description Updated the description of Apache Kafka for clarity and added an architecture image. --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 49d1f9fd5cf50..e8a4a0deec9e9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ [![CI](https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg?branch=trunk&event=push)](https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/workflows/ci.yml?query=event%3Apush+branch%3Atrunk) [![Flaky Test Report](https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/workflows/generate-reports.yml/badge.svg?branch=trunk&event=schedule)](https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/workflows/generate-reports.yml?query=event%3Aschedule+branch%3Atrunk) -[**Apache Kafka**](https://kafka.apache.org) is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. +[**Apache Kafka**](https://kafka.apache.org) is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed event-streaming platform designed for real-time data ingestion, processing, and distribution. It enables applications to publish, store, and consume continuous streams of records with high throughput and durability, making it a core infrastructure component for building data pipelines, streaming analytics systems, and mission-critical, event-driven architectures. + +Acchitecture of Apache Kafka: +kafka drawio + You need to have [Java](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) installed.