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Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale

Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale

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  • Create Date：2021-12-02 06:51:29
  • Update Date：2025-09-07
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  • Author：Neha Narkhede
  • ISBN：1492043087
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Summary

Every enterprise application creates data， whether it consists of log messages， metrics， user activity， outgoing messages， or something else。 Moving all of this data is just as important as the data itself。 This book's updated second edition shows application architects， developers， and production engineers new to the Kafka open source streaming platform how to handle real-time data feeds。 Additional chapters cover Kafka's AdminClient API， new security features， and tooling changes。

Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters， write reliable event-driven microservices， and build scalable stream processing applications with this platform。 Through detailed examples， you'll learn Kafka's design principles， reliability guarantees， key APIs， and architecture details， including the replication protocol， the controller， and the storage layer。

You'll examine:


How publish-subscribe messaging fits in the big data ecosystem
Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages
Patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery
Best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka
How to perform monitoring， tuning， and maintenance tasks with Kafka in production
The most critical metrics among Kafka's operational measurements
Kafka's delivery capabilities for stream processing systems

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Reviews

Vitor De Mario ，

Leitura bem maçante。 É o típico formato do livro técnico， passa boa parte do tempo listando comandos， argumentos， coisas que daria pra ver na documentação e faz mais sentido consultar sob demanda mesmo。A parte inicial do livro é a mais interessante， onde são apresentados os conceitos e alguns exemplos， dali tirei informação útil。

Emad Mokhtar ，

I recommend this book for anyone wants to understand the Kafka's ins and outs。 I recommend this book for anyone wants to understand the Kafka's ins and outs。 。。。more

Santanu Baruah ，

not bad。

Stephen Morris ，

This is a good book。 It helped me to write some Java code that reads data from Kafka and also code to write data to Kafka

Olya Ivanova ，

great and useful 👌🏼

Christoph Kappel ，

This book is a complete trip through all of the topics around kafka - I should have listened to the wording "definitive guide"。 My intention was to understand the idea of kafka， what risks might be and I think the book did a good job。For my opinion， there was way too much explanation of all the various config options， I think the manual contains this kind of explanation as well。 Still， all the config options and the notes， that you have to figure out the best mix on your own isn't really assurin This book is a complete trip through all of the topics around kafka - I should have listened to the wording "definitive guide"。 My intention was to understand the idea of kafka， what risks might be and I think the book did a good job。For my opinion， there was way too much explanation of all the various config options， I think the manual contains this kind of explanation as well。 Still， all the config options and the notes， that you have to figure out the best mix on your own isn't really assuring。 。。。more

Aru Mugam ，

Good to know understanding about Kafka in detail。 clearly written。

Gaofeng ，

Great manual for Kafka developer， but just reading is boring and it's not worth the effort if you are not willing to put the hands on the matter。 Great manual for Kafka developer， but just reading is boring and it's not worth the effort if you are not willing to put the hands on the matter。 。。。more

Maria ，

Good overview。 Just be aware that some bits are out of date。

NotAWiz4rd ，

A very good introduction to Kafka， though some info is outdated and， to me personally， not every chapter was very relevant。

Yesi Days ，

Es buen libro que explica las bases de Kafka

Shriraj Nayak ，

Book provides basic information about Kafka。 Author talks about the configurations， settings， commonly seen issues， monitoring stats and tools。 Sections covering the Kafka monitoring could have gone in more detail。 I would recommend the book for beginners。

Florian Hopf ，

I think I had the wrong expectations for this book。 Because of the similarity in title with Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide I expected a book that guides me hands on into using Kafka。 But it's more a reference， a very well written one though。 I think I had the wrong expectations for this book。 Because of the similarity in title with Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide I expected a book that guides me hands on into using Kafka。 But it's more a reference， a very well written one though。 。。。more

Ieva Gr ，

Why I read it: The book is presented as ‘a fun read for those interested in distributed systems’。 And I am one of those people。 + Kafka is one of the tools used in my workplace， so thought it would be nice to know more about it。What I liked about it: It actually was a fun read。 Everything was explained well and with simple language。 I did not struggle while reading it at all。 It provided in depth knowledge on Kafka – main concepts， how things work， how things should be configured to get a desire Why I read it: The book is presented as ‘a fun read for those interested in distributed systems’。 And I am one of those people。 + Kafka is one of the tools used in my workplace， so thought it would be nice to know more about it。What I liked about it: It actually was a fun read。 Everything was explained well and with simple language。 I did not struggle while reading it at all。 It provided in depth knowledge on Kafka – main concepts， how things work， how things should be configured to get a desired effect etc。 It also managed to put this information in context – discussing things like data pipelines， peculiarities of multiple data center operations， monitoring and alerting in general。 What I disliked: I might not have been the target audience for the book。 The book went really really in depth into various configurations， scripts you can run etc。 And I wanted to just familiarize myself with Kafka architecture。 Quote: The same way that sharks must keep moving or they die， consumers must keep polling Kafka or they will be considered dead。 。。。more

Gentur Waskito ，

The book offers a great explanation of how Kafka works， but mostly it's about guiding us on how to administer Kafka and how to use it properly。I was hoping it would explain more about the internals of Kafka and the decision-making process on choosing such approaches。 The book offers a great explanation of how Kafka works， but mostly it's about guiding us on how to administer Kafka and how to use it properly。I was hoping it would explain more about the internals of Kafka and the decision-making process on choosing such approaches。 。。。more

Vera ，

A good book to improve basic Kafka knowledge。 It is much more readable and helpful than the official doc。

Siarhei Krukau ，

Excellent introduction to Kafka。

Jevgenij ，

The book is not very useful for developers， a bit better for system administrators。 However， administration and configuration concepts are very inconveniently intermixed。Some chapters feel unnecessarily detailed and feel more like a manual on configuration， others feel incomplete， e。g。 in the section about stream processing use-cases only 2 use-cases are mentioned。

Felipe Gonçalves Marques ，

A great book to get a better understanding of Kafka， but mainly to be used as a reference。It provides a lot of information regarding the internals of Kafka and its configuration， which gives a lot of insights on how to deploy， monitor and debug it。 And most of the time the authors contextualize the information with software engineering principles and real-world use cases。 Also， Kafka streams API seems very interesting。

Ivan Orone ，

The book does a great job of giving you a general overview of how to use Kafka effectively。 I highly recommend it to anyone starting out with Kafka and doesn't want to fall into avoidable pitfalls later on with their Kafka setup。The authors have vast experience using Kafka and do a great job of guiding you on various actions and their consequences。 They also guide you on what to look out for。 The book does a great job of giving you a general overview of how to use Kafka effectively。 I highly recommend it to anyone starting out with Kafka and doesn't want to fall into avoidable pitfalls later on with their Kafka setup。The authors have vast experience using Kafka and do a great job of guiding you on various actions and their consequences。 They also guide you on what to look out for。 。。。more

Peter Rybarczyk ，

Really good book， maybe not the best tech book I've read so far but a good one。 This book is written by tech people for tech people and you feel it all the time， for me， it's a big plus。 It explains most of the topics I'd like to know to start my journey with Kafka and for sure I'll be using it often。 Next big thing is that I didn't found any advertisement for Confluent or Apache at all！ That nice， there was more space for meaty stuff like:-> Monitoring - this is the chapter I liked most。 A lot Really good book， maybe not the best tech book I've read so far but a good one。 This book is written by tech people for tech people and you feel it all the time， for me， it's a big plus。 It explains most of the topics I'd like to know to start my journey with Kafka and for sure I'll be using it often。 Next big thing is that I didn't found any advertisement for Confluent or Apache at all！ That nice， there was more space for meaty stuff like:-> Monitoring - this is the chapter I liked most。 A lot of meaty stuff and How To Do It explanations。 For sure this will be the part I'll keep coming back often。 -> Consumers & Producers - a really good explanation of this topic。-> Configuration - good starting point to build a reliable data pipeline。 But to be fair there were two things which disappointed me a bit: -> Kafka Stream - just lack of explanation & things behind this。 It will be better just to skip this chapter and write more about connectors。-> Kafka Internals - a good and bad chapter at the same time。 As I am not a Java guy I've been overwhelmed by number of Java-style code & lack of theory behind。 In general: a great book to learn what Kafka is about and how it works。 An even better book to have it on hand in time of first steps of Kafka powered development。 。。。more

Bjoern ，

Great book for everyone who wants to start working with Kafka。 It touches most of the important topics and explains things really well！ The only deficit is that it’s a bit outdated and does not cover for example KSQL。

Rosa Chaves Rodríguez ，

We love logs， so that Kafka architecture （producer， consumer， broker， zookeeper） plays an important role to orchestrate Big Data。 This book is a Good introduction to this technology from instalation to code configurations， it offers lots of explanatory schemas as well。

Mahboobe Haddadi ，

از فواید تحریم‌هاست که می‌تونیم با تکنولوژی‌ها از نزدیک کار کنیم :دی کافکا از دور خیلی بزرگ به نظر می‌رسید و با وجود اینکه مفاهیم هر بخش رو جداگانه می‌دونستیم （من و دوستم） ولی از اون مدل‌هایی نبود که بشه فقط با مستند خوندن شروعش کرد。 کتاب دو تا مسئله رو همزمان پوشش می‌ده: نصب و بالا آوردن و ارتباط از طریق جاوا。 مسئله‌های مختلفی رو می‌شه با کافکا حل کرد که کتاب توضیح داده。همزمان اشاراتی به ساختار درونی هم داره。

Miloš ，

If you disregard the fact that something that claims to be a "definitive" guide skims over a lot of usage patterns and best practices， the book was actually a very nice read - informative， to the point， dives deep enough into Kafka architecture and implementation details to give you a clear picture of how it works and what you should expect when using Kafka but also omits enough information so that it doesn't overwhelm you at any point。 If you disregard the fact that something that claims to be a "definitive" guide skims over a lot of usage patterns and best practices， the book was actually a very nice read - informative， to the point， dives deep enough into Kafka architecture and implementation details to give you a clear picture of how it works and what you should expect when using Kafka but also omits enough information so that it doesn't overwhelm you at any point。 。。。more

Alexander Iskuskov ，

Хорошая книга， но нужно быть внимательным - Kafka сильно ушла вперёд в сравнении с изложенным

Aidar Samerkhanov ，

Great book！ I wish I had read it before my project started。

Bogdan Popa ，

I am reviewing this book from a sysadmin point of view。 The book is combining kafka administration and development without concentrating clearly on a specific topic。

Umut Salih ，

it is well written almost cover all details about kafka and how it works。I thik it deserves its name

Ivan Atanasov ，

Definitely you need to read this book if you plan to work with message bus/Kafka

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