Often Mission Critical Systems are used as “Book of Record” systems. At the same time, this adds requirements to Mission Critical Systems operational duties as to disseminate these “Records” so that other business areas can benefit from this up-to-date information. LightWave Client facilitates this data integration into the Kafka ecosystem as a Kafka producer.     LightWave Client enables the integration via REST of existing operating environments running within the NonStop system. For example, Point-of-Sale transactions can be streamed near real-time into Kafka data lakes unlocking real-time data streaming possibilities and empowering companies to build highly responsive and scalable applications. By leveraging Kafka Producer, companies can effortlessly publish events, messages, or data updates to Kafka topics in real time. This integrates existing HPE NonStop ecosystems into newer technologies expanding existing NonStop based Intellectual Property.