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-[**Apache Kafka**](https://kafka.apache.org) is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of
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-companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
+[**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.
 
 You need to have [Java](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) installed.