kafka the definitive guide

The greatest compliment you can give an author of a technical book is “This is the book I wish I had when I got started with this subject.” This is the goal we set for ourselves when we started writing this book. We looked back at our experience writing Kafka, running Kafka in production, and helping many companies use Kafka to build software architectures and manage their data pipelines and we asked ourselves, “What are the most useful things we can share with new users to take them from beginner to experts?” This book is a reflection of the work we do every day: run Apache Kafka and help others use it in the best ways.