2018 Apache Kafka Report

近期打算翻译一下，2018年Kafka行业报告。敬请期待。
Now in its third year, the survey of the Apache Kafka community shows how and why companies are adopting streaming platforms to build event-driven architectures, and the bottom line impact they have on the business.
Apache Kafka 社区调查报告是在解密：企业采用数据流平台构建事件驱动架构的方式以及背后的原因，还有这种模式对他们商业的影响。

Nearly six out of ten companies (57%) process 1 million or more messages daily through Kafka: 28% process between 1 and 99 million, and 2% process 1 trillion or more.
调查显示：将近57%的企业日处理消息数量达1百万以上，将近28%的企业消息处理量在1百万到9千万中间，而达到万亿数量的占比2%。具体的调查结果请看下图：

Executive Summary
总结
Since Kafka was created in 2012, the growth has been astonishing. Particularly notable in this year’s report was the breadth and depth of companies using Kafka as a strategic platform for their business, as well as the scope and centrality of the applications developed.
kafka诞生于2012年，其成长非常迅猛。尤其近几年越来越多的行业采用kafka当做商业运营的战略平台，以及应用程序的中心地位。

Companies are reimagining retail, healthcare, cars, travel, banking, and virtually every other industry imaginable, around streams of real-time events, creating a new technology pattern.
新零售、医疗、汽车、旅游、银行业以及几乎所有其他可以想象的行业，围绕着实时事件处理，正在创造一种新的技术模式。

An event-driven architecture is the idea that one should design software starting with events, things that happen in the real world and have real business meaning, and that these events should be the central concept in the architecture.
事件驱动的架构是这样的理念：设计软件应该从事件开始，那些在现实世界中发生并具有真正的商业意义的事件，应该是架构中的核心。

Top findings from the report include:Kafka adoption is growing. This year, the vast majority of organizations (94%) plan to deploy new applications or systems using Kafka. Two thirds (67%) plan to deploy between 1 and 10 new applications or systems.
该报告的最新发现包括：kafka的用户正在增长。今年，绝大多数组织（94%）计划使用kafka部署新的应用程序或系统。三分之二（67%）计划部署1到10个新的应用程序或系统。

Building distributed systems is challenging. Apache Kafka provides a powerful toolkit for putting together big services as a set of scalable, decoupled components. For six out of ten organizations, their microservices architecture (63%) relies on Kafka to preserve and communicate state, more than twice as many did last year (29%).
构建分布式系统具有挑战性。Apache kafka提供了一个强大的工具包，将大型服务集拆分成一组可伸缩的、解耦的组件。十分之六的用户，他们的微服务架构（63%）依赖于kafka来保存和传递消息，比去年两倍多（29%）。

Truly data-driven organizations keep events at the center of the business. In fact, 90 percent of respondents said Apache Kafka is mission critical to power this central nervous system across many different applications and use cases.