# Kafka, a walking skeleton

DevFeed: [Kafka, a walking skeleton](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kafka-a-walking-skeleton-26067.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.arkey.fr/2017/04/29/kafka-a-walking-skeleton/>)

Author: brice.dutheil@gmail.com (Brice Dutheil)

Published: 2017-04-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: fr

Sources: [The Coffee Workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-coffee-workshop.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Publish-subscribe pattern](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pubsub.md>), [Hadoop](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hadoop.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [broker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/broker.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [messages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messages.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [queuing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/queuing.md>)

## AI overview

This French article introduces Apache Kafka through a minimal end-to-end implementation, based on Kafka 0.9. It explains Kafka's origins at LinkedIn and describes its performance, durable message retention, scalability, fault resilience, and support for queuing and publish-subscribe messaging.

## Source excerpt

Ce blog post est une republication de mon article sur Kafka parut dans le magazine Programmez numéro 196 en mai 2016 (pages 70-73). Il se base sur la version 0.9 de Kafka.