Is Kafka a middleware?

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1. #systems
2. #infrastructure
3. #supporting
4. #messages
5. #between
6. #distributed
7. #sending
8. #software
9. #hardware
10. #receiving
11. #oriented
12. #middleware
13. #kafka
14. #message