Kafka the Apache open source project is kind of dead/legacy for Confluent.

Confluent re-wrote the backend of Kafka for their SASS product and use the public Kafka wire protocol for public integration https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-ka... .

I don’t think the Apache Kafka distribution is going away, Confluent will still have paying customers with support contracts wanting features and the protocol will likely still need to evolve but the open source version will likely be a burden on Confluent with their own private implementation so it’ll be interesting to see how things look in a few years.

https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-ka...

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