Books

Go from Kafka quickstart to production-ready expertise. This hands-on guide covers brokers, partitions, producers, consumers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, security, tuning, and Kubernetes deployment, all grounded in real stories from Netflix, Uber, and LinkedIn. Build a complete real-time fraud detection pipeline as you go.

Build real-time data systems that can keep up with the demands of production. Streaming at Scale takes you under the hood of Apache Flink, covering state, event time, exactly-once processing, performance, Kubernetes and more. With runnable examples and practical lessons, it shows how to build systems that are fast, reliable and ready to scale.