2010年，LinkedIn开始开发Kafka。2011年，Kafka成为Apache开源项目。从那以后，Kafka的使用在各种企业中迅速增长。目前，超过30%的世界500强公司已经在使用Kafka。本次演讲会先介绍为什么Kafka最开始成为一个非常受欢迎的发布订阅消息系统。接着会介绍Kafka近期增加的企业级功能。最后会介绍未来如何把Kafka建成实时流数据处理平台。

Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn in 2010. Since it became an Apache project in 2011, it has been adopted rapidly by various enterprises across industries. Currently, more than 30% of Fortune 500 companies are using Kafka. In this talk, I will first explain what made Kafka attractive as a pub/sub system initially. Then, I will describe additional features that we have developed for enterprise usage. Finally, I will talk about our vision of making Kafka a streaming data platform.