Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Customers will get the best of both worlds—the ecosystem and tools of Kafka, along with Azure’s ...

Kafka acts as a queuing system for large IoT deployments, enabling storage and analytics systems to catch up to the high volumes of data produced by IoT devices.

Microsoft's managed Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight is now generally available and ready to help power enterprise IoT solutions.