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By Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira & Todd Palino
This guide introduces Kafka’s core concepts — such as producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and replication — and shows how to use them to process real-time data at scale. It covers deployment, reliability guarantees, architecture, best practices for building data-driven applications, and tools for monitoring and maintaining Kafka in production.
Kafka: The Definitive Guide is a hands-on technical guide to Apache Kafka, the distributed streaming platform. Written by engineers deeply involved in Kafka’s development, the book explains how to build reliable data pipelines, deploy Kafka clusters, write producers and consumers, and handle real-time event streams.
"Modern applications depend on real-time data, yet building reliable systems can be daunting. This book offers an authoritative guide to Apache Kafka, written by the very engineers who helped create it. Readers will find both practical instructions and deep insights, making it essential for developers, architects, and technical leaders."
- Neetish Raj
Cloud Consultant
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