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Neha Narkhede is a co-founder of Confluent and one of the original creators of Apache Kafka. Gwen Shapira is a software engineer and data architect specializing in distributed systems.
Known for: Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale
Books by Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino
Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale
This comprehensive guide introduces Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform designed for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It explains Kafka’s architecture, core concepts, and ecosystem tools, providing practical examples for deploying, managing, and scaling Kafka clusters. The book covers topics such as producers, consumers, topics, partitions, replication, and stream processing with Kafka Streams and Connect.
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Kafka Architecture Fundamentals
At the heart of Kafka lies a remarkably elegant idea: the distributed commit log. Unlike traditional message brokers that push data forward to consumers, Kafka keeps data persistent and available across brokers, allowing consumers to read at their own pace. We designed Kafka to act simultaneously as...
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Producers and Consumers
Data flows through Kafka by means of producers and consumers. As producers, we publish records to specific topics, tagging each event with keys that determine partition assignment. Kafka’s producer API is built to balance reliability and speed. It supports various delivery semantics—at most once, at...
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About Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino
Neha Narkhede is a co-founder of Confluent and one of the original creators of Apache Kafka. Gwen Shapira is a software engineer and data architect specializing in distributed systems. Todd Palino is a site reliability engineer with extensive experience in managing large-scale Kafka deployments.
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