diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index e9205de403e9..c63536abd69b 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   bluescreen303 = "Mathijs Kwik <mathijs@bluescreen303.nl>";
   bobvanderlinden = "Bob van der Linden <bobvanderlinden@gmail.com>";
   bodil = "Bodil Stokke <nix@bodil.org>";
+  boothead = "Ben Ford <ben@perurbis.com>";
   bosu = "Boris Sukholitko <boriss@gmail.com>";
   calrama = "Moritz Maxeiner <moritz@ucworks.org>";
   campadrenalin = "Philip Horger <campadrenalin@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rdkafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rdkafka/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cd7cc2e55057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rdkafka/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, pkgs }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "0.8.5";
+  name = "rdkafka";
+
+  # Maintenance repo for libtar (Arch Linux uses this)
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka.git";
+    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
+    sha256 = "05a83hmpz1xmnln0wa7n11ijn08zxijdvpdswyymxbdlg69w31y1";
+  };
+
+  patchPhase = "patchShebangs .";
+  
+  buildInputs = [ pkgs.zlib pkgs.perl ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "librdkafka - Apache Kafka C/C++ client library";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka";
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.boothead ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zookeeper_mt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zookeeper_mt/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c22bb645be27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zookeeper_mt/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, zookeeper, bash }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+   name = "zookeeper_mt";
+   
+   src = zookeeper.src;
+   
+   setSourceRoot = "export sourceRoot=${zookeeper.name}/src/c";
+
+   buildInputs = [ zookeeper bash ];
+
+   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+   	homepage = "http://zookeeper.apache.org";
+   	description = "Apache Zookeeper";
+   	license = licenses.asl20;
+   	maintainers = [ maintainers.boothead ];	
+   	platforms = platforms.unix;	
+   };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/kafka/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/kafka/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ffd171d980c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/kafka/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, jre, makeWrapper, bash }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+	name = "kafka";
+        version = "0.8.1.1";
+	src = fetchurl {
+		url = "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/${name}/${version}/${name}_2.9.2-${version}.tgz";
+		sha256 = "cb141c1d50b1bd0d741d68e5e21c090341d961cd801e11e42fb693fa53e9aaed";
+	};
+
+	buildInputs = [ makeWrapper jre ];
+
+	installPhase = ''
+		mkdir -p $out
+		cp -R config libs $out
+		mkdir -p $out/bin
+		cp -R bin/${name}-*.sh $out/bin
+		for i in $out/bin/${name}-*.sh; do
+			wrapProgram $i \
+				--set JAVA_HOME "${jre}" \
+				--prefix PATH : "${bash}/bin"
+		done
+                
+	'';
+
+	meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+		homepage = "http://kafka.apache.org";
+		description = "Apache Kafka";
+		license = licenses.asl20;
+		maintainers = [ maintainers.boothead ];	
+		platforms = platforms.unix;	
+	};		
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f42bed378058..f105c3976634 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7923,6 +7923,8 @@ let
 
   joseki = callPackage ../servers/http/joseki {};
 
+  kafka = callPackage ../servers/kafka { };
+
   leafnode = callPackage ../servers/news/leafnode { };
 
   lighttpd = callPackage ../servers/http/lighttpd { };