Redpanda Kafka Compatible

Redpanda is a streaming platform written in C++ (not Java) that's API-compatible with Apache Kafka. You can use existing Kafka tools, libraries, and workflows, but Redpanda offers lower latency, higher throughput, and drastically lower resource consumption (no JVM overhead). Redpanda is ideal for teams running Kafka at scale and hitting performance bottlenecks, or teams starting fresh and wanting faster, simpler streaming infrastructure.