Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn engineers, primarily Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao, around 2010. It was later open-sourced in 2011 an

Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn engineers, primarily Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao, around 2010. It was later open-sourced in 2011 and became a top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation in 2012. The creators went on to co-found Confluent, a company that provides commercial support and enterprise features around Kafka.