# ✍️ Kafka Connect Fundamentals: What is Kafka Connect?

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**Created:** [29 September 2021 17:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-connect-fundamentals-what-is-kafka-connect/2933 "2021-09-29T17:18:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [29 September 2021 17:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-connect-fundamentals-what-is-kafka-connect/2933/1 "2021-09-29T17:18:37Z")

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✨ There’s a new post on the [Confluent blog](https://confluent.io/blog). Here’s a snippet from it:

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Apache Kafka® is an enormously successful piece of data infrastructure, functioning as the ubiquitous distributed log underlying the modern enterprise. It is scalable, available as a managed service, and has […]

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**[👉 Head over to the blog to read the full article](https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-connect-tutorial/)**