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				<h2>Publish &amp; subscribe</h2>
				<p>Read and write streams of data like a messaging system.</p>
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				<p>Write scalable stream processing applications that react to events in real-time.</p>
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				<p>Store streams of data safely in a distributed, replicated, fault-tolerant cluster.</p>
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					<time>Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2019</time>
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					<h3><a href="https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.3.0">AK Release 2.3.0</a></h3>
					<time>June 25, 2019</time>
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					<h3><a href="https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.2.1">AK Release 2.2.1</a></h3>
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