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

As good as it gets

This book provides everything you need, even as a beginner, to set up a Kafka cluster, produce messages, and consume messages. It mentions other topics which you will need to research on your own, like a schema registry. Highly recommend it.

If you want to know every single detail on how to set up and use Kafka, this is the book for you. It covers security, resource management, use cases with all possible configurations, etc. If you just want to know the concepts on how to use Kafka (without knowing security and setup), this is still the book for you, as it will expose you to the features and pitfalls. Later you can use stack overflow to find specific answers. I found the explanation on partitions and exactly once guarantee especially helpful. I found my eyes glazing over the exhaustive detail. High level concepts were explained in a just ok way. As a data engineer, I found the section on ETL especially weak to the point of being useless. You are better consulting other sources to learn how to integrate Kafka. Overall, a good book to go through before diving into Kafka.

Good so far

It contains almost you need to start with kafka o for running kafka in production

Buen libro para muchas audiencias

Already outdated. Second edition covers v2.8.x, 3.8.3 is current. Zookeeper is End of Life and will be completely replaced with Kraft in v4.0.0. Book has no coverage of Kafka REST Proxies, and other new features! Hoping that the third edition will be released soon with updated content. The print quality also has readability issues.

This is what I expect from a book about a tool. To explain its concepts, design assumptions and important key points to have in mind when designing applications that use the tool. Discussions and explanations in deeper level than usually found over Internet (it's true you may find relevant discussions an articles on Internet, but not compiled and organized like in the form of a well produced book). Therefore, I do not expect a book like this to have a great amount of code examples. The code examples this book has are didactic, and illustrate the points and ideas being discussed. I only missed a deeper discussion regarding possible patterns for consumer retries without blocking the topic. Some are mentioned but at a high level.

good

Over all book is really good, but it’s not color printed.

Exactly what I needed, I learnt a lot and was able to use this knowledge at my new company which uses Kafka heavily

High-quality content from the creators.

Lidei com atraso na entrega, sendo que paguei entrega expressa. Logística de entrega precisa melhorar. De resto, produto muito bom.