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+# Confluent Examples
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+This repository contains code examples for [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) and the
+[Confluent Platform](http://www.confluent.io/product).
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+* [kafka-clients](kafka-clients/): example Kafka client applications such as a Java producer application
+  (for writing data to Kafka) and a Java consumer application (for reading data from Kafka)
+* [kafka-streams](kafka-streams/): examples that demonstrate how to implement real-time processing applications using
+   Kafka Streams, which is a new stream processing library included with the [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/)
+   open source project.