# Kafka Reference

Kafka is an open-source distributed event and stream-processing platform built to process demanding real-time data feeds. It is inherently scalable, with high throughput and availability.

### The DigitalOcean API

You can use the API to [manage clusters, Topics, and users](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/databases/index.html.md).

### The DigitalOcean MCP Server

The [DigitalOcean Model Context Protocol (MCP) server](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/mcp/index.html.md) lets you use natural language prompts to interact with DigitalOcean Managed Databases to create, resize, configure, migrate, and inspect clusters across all supported engines. All operations use argument-based input, and no resource URIs are used. The tools also support pagination, configuration management, firewall updates, user management, topic operations for Kafka, and other engine-specific settings where applicable.

## Official Kafka Documentation

- The [Kafka documentation](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/)