acknowledgments

First and foremost, we thank our families and friends for their unwavering support throughout this project. Your encouragement and assistance over the years have been invaluable.

We’re deeply grateful to the Kafka community for making this book possible. Your collective efforts have shaped Kafka into the remarkable project it is today.

Our training participants and customers deserve special recognition. Your support, both through shared experiences and, of course, your financial support, has been crucial to this book’s development.

We extend our gratitude to everyone who supported the first German edition with Hanser, particularly Sylvia Hasselbach, whose patience and fantastic cooperation over the years were instrumental to our success.

The Manning team has been exceptional, especially our development editor Connor O’Brien, whose discussions, comments, and suggestions significantly improved the book. We also thank Purushotham Chikkanayakanhalli Krishnegowda, seasoned IT professional with more than 21 years of experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Java, Spring, and microservices, who served as our technical editor and technical proofreader on this book. His thorough reviews and attention to detail has enhanced the book’s technical precision and clarity.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Adam Bellemare for writing the fantastic foreword to this book.