Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that has gained massive adoption since its open-sourcing in 2011. It serves as a publish-subscribe messaging system for distributed applications and avoids tightly coupled app-to-app interactions. However, it lacks the persistence and consistency guarantees of a traditional database, making it necessary to integrate with a distributed SQL database like YugabyteDB to support business-critical event-driven applications. A distributed SQL database provides horizontal write scalability, native failover and repair, global consistency and low latency reads, as well as SQL's query flexibility, which are essential for modern enterprise applications. The integration of Kafka with a distributed SQL database enables developer agility by providing the benefits of both systems, including scalability, fault tolerance, and high performance.