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Getting started with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
Blog post from Aiven
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Date Published
Author
Heikki Nousiainen
Word Count
1,286
Language
English
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Summary
Apache Kafka is a high-throughput publish-subscribe message broker, perfect for providing messaging for microservices. Aiven offers fully managed Apache Kafka as a service in various cloud platforms. Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed Kafka service that takes care of the deployment and operational burden of running your own Kafka service. It ensures data safety by encrypting it both in transit and at rest on disk, and provides multiple different plan types with different cluster sizing and capacity. The tutorial guides users through setting up and running their first Aiven for Apache Kafka service, as well as accessing the service using Python and Node.js code examples.