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1 | | -Confluent's Apache Kafka client for Python |
2 | | -========================================== |
| 1 | +Confluent's Python Client for Apache Kafka<sup>TM</sup> |
| 2 | +======================================================= |
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4 | | -Confluent's Kafka client for Python wraps the librdkafka C library, providing |
5 | | -full Kafka protocol support with great performance and reliability. |
| 4 | +**confluent-kafka-python** is Confluent's Python client for [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) and the |
| 5 | +[Confluent Platform](https://www.confluent.io/product/). |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Features: |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +- **High performance** - confluent-kafka-python is a lightweight wrapper around |
| 10 | +[librdkafka](https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka), a finely tuned C |
| 11 | +client. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- **Reliability** - There are a lot of details to get right when writing an Apache Kafka |
| 14 | +client. We get them right in one place (librdkafka) and leverage this work |
| 15 | +across all of our clients (also [confluent-kafka-go](https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go) |
| 16 | +and [confluent-kafka-dotnet](https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet)). |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +- **Supported** - Commercial support is offered by |
| 19 | +[Confluent](https://confluent.io/). |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- **Future proof** - Confluent, founded by the |
| 22 | +creators of Kafka, is building a [streaming platform](https://www.confluent.io/product/) |
| 23 | +with Apache Kafka at its core. It's high priority for us that client features keep |
| 24 | +pace with core Apache Kafka and components of the [Confluent Platform](https://www.confluent.io/product/). |
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7 | 26 | The Python bindings provides a high-level Producer and Consumer with support |
8 | 27 | for the balanced consumer groups of Apache Kafka 0.9. |
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