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Enhance README with improved Kafka description
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Fix typo in README and removed image
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[**Apache Kafka**](https://kafka.apache.org) is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
[**Apache Kafka**](https://kafka.apache.org) is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed event-streaming platform designed for real-time data ingestion, processing, and distribution. It enables applications to publish, store, and consume continuous streams of records with high throughput and durability, making it a core infrastructure component for building data pipelines, streaming analytics systems, and mission-critical, event-driven architectures.

Acchitecture of Apache Kafka:
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nit: "architecture" not "accitecture".

<img width="772" height="562" alt="kafka drawio" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f1dda78b-0826-4408-92ba-6aef364f1b3a" />
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This image is not helpful. It includes Zookeeper which was removed from Kafka in the 4.0 release. Personally, I would prefer not to include an image in the repo readme file.



You need to have [Java](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) installed.

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