This document discusses using Apache Kafka for real-time stream processing. It provides an example of using Kafka to build a real-time fraud detection system for credit card transactions. Key concepts discussed include Kafka's producer and consumer APIs, connecting external data sources using Kafka Connect, and transforming streams using the Kafka Streams API. The Kafka Streams API allows creating streams from Kafka topics, composing transformations on the streams through stateless and stateful operations like joins and aggregations, and writing transformed streams back to Kafka.