Hostfully Property Management Platform is a cloud-based solution designed to help small to large vacation rental businesses manage reservations across multiple channels. Key features include payment processing, instant messaging, team collaboration, upselling, analytics, and reporting

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.