foreword
I started with Apache Kafka back in early 2015 with version 0.8.2, and as a longtime user, occasional contributor, and active observer, I’ve been fortunate enough to see countless organizations build, iterate, and succeed with Apache Kafka. Now, a decade later, Kafka is markedly different from how it began. There’s a whole range of different deployment options, designed and implemented by a community that has lived and toiled in the problem space. Real-world experience has led to real-world capabilities, baked into the core Kafka project.
In this book, Apache Kafka in Action, authors Anatoly Zelenin and Alexander Kropp share their many years of real-world Kafka experience. Anatoly is an instructor and founder of the DataFlow Academy, teaching people worldwide the best ways to not only use Kafka, but how to integrate all the various supporting components: Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker, schema registries, monitoring solutions, and more.
Alex is a seasoned hands-on practitioner. A regular consultant, he helps businesses set up cloud-based data streaming platforms with modern data toolsets. He is an expert in Kubernetes and infrastructure as code deployments.