Starting with TIBCO(R) Messaging — Apache Kafka Distribution (I) Overview and Installation

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If you are familiar with Enterprise Integration world for sure you know Kafka, one of the most famous projects from Apache Foundation for the last years, and also if you are in Integration World you know TIBCO Software, and some of our flagship products like TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks for integration, TIBCO Cloud Integration as our iPaaS, TIBCO AMX BPM, TIBCO BusinessEvents.. and I could continue that list over and over.. :)

But, probably you don’t know about TIBCO(R) Messaging — Apache Kafka Distribution. This is one of the parts of our global messaging solution named TIBCO Messaging and it is composed of several components:

• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (aka TIBCO EMS) is our JMS 2.0 compliant server, one of our messaging standards over a decade.
• TIBCO FTL is our cloud-ready messaging solution, using a direct pub-sub no centralized and so performant communication system.
• TIBCO(R) Messaging — Apache Kafka Distribution is designed for efficient data distribution and stream processing with the ability to bridge Kafka applications to other TIBCO Messaging applications powered by TIBCO FTL(R), TIBCO eFTL(TM) or TIBCO Enterprise Message Service(TM).
• TIBCO(R) Messaging — Eclipse…