PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce platform that allows businesses to quickly and easily create and manage their online stores. It offers a range of customizable templates and features that cater to different business needs and sizes, making it a popular choice for small and medium-sized enterprises. With an intuitive and user-friendly interface, PrestaShop enables entrepreneurs to showcase their products and services, process payments, handle shipping and logistics, and manage their online presence all in one place. It also provides a vast library of add-ons and modules to further enhance the functionality of the platform. PrestaShop is a flexible and scalable solution that empowers businesses to grow and succeed online.

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.