Who uses Kafka?

Who uses Kafka?

A lot of large companies who handle a lot of data use Kafka. LinkedIn, where it originated, uses it to track activity data and operational metrics. Twitter uses it as part of Storm to provide a stream processing infrastructure. Square uses Kafka as a bus to move all system events to various Square data centers (logs, custom events, metrics, and so on), outputs to Splunk, Graphite (dashboards), and to implement an Esper-like/CEPalerting systems. It gets used by other companies too like Spotify, Uber, Tumbler, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, Box, Cisco, CloudFlare, NetFlix, and much more.

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