SkyTouch is a cloud-based hotel management platform suited for hotels of virtually any size or type, featuring an easy-to-use property management system (PMS), along with a rate management system to help optimize revenue, and tools for distribution management with two-way connectivity between booking engines

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.