# Tiny Letter from Kafka

DevFeed: [Tiny Letter from Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tiny-letter-from-kafka-2169.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//tiny-letter-from-kafka>)

Published: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Apache-Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apache-kafka.md>), [Event-Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-streaming.md>), [Publish-subscribe pattern](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pubsub.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [apache-kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-kafka.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [event](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event.md>), [event-streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-streaming.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces Apache Kafka as an open-source distributed event streaming and messaging platform. It explains the publish-subscribe messaging pattern and uses the story behind Kafka's name to illustrate the system's core flow, with a brief reference to how SoundCloud teams consume event data.

## Source excerpt

This article discusses the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka, "an open-source distributed event streaming platform," and gives a sneak...