Escapia is a cloud-based vacation rental system that helps vacation rental managers automate property management tasks and online distribution. Key features include accounting tools, lead management, reservations, maintenance, housekeeping, marketing and an owner portal.

Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can connect to external systems (for data import/export) via Kafka Connect, and provides the Kafka Streams libraries for stream processing applications.