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Kafka : the definitive guide: real-time data and stream processing at scale

Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you will understand how Kafka works and how it is designed. Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino 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. Learn how Kafka compares to other queues, and where it fits in the big data ecosystem. Dive into Kafka's internal designPick 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

eBook, English, 2016
First edition
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA, 2016