Kafka: The Definitive Guide (Preview Edition)

Preview Edition of the upcoming book Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka®. With this comprehensive book, you’ll understand how Kafka works and how it’s designed.

Authors Neha Narkhede (Confluent), Gwen Shapira (Confluent), and Todd Palino (LinkedIn) show you how to deploy production Kafka clusters; secure, tune, and monitor them; write rock-solid applications that use Kafka; and build scalable stream-processing applications.

The complete book will be published later this summer, but take a sneak peek today with the Preview Edition.

In the book, you will:

• Learn how Apache Kafka compares to other queues and where it fits in the big data ecosystem
• Deep dive into Kafka’s internal design
• Pick up best practices for developing applications that use Kafka
• Understand the best way to deploy Kafka in production monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
• Learn how to secure a Kafka cluster
• Get detailed use cases