Part 3 Delivering projects with Kafka
Architecture sets the vision, but projects succeed only when that vision is delivered in practice. In this part of the book, we’ll focus on what it takes to run Kafka in the real world—from deployment to daily operations—and finally, at what the future holds.
In chapter 9, we’ll look at deployment choices, metadata management, and security practices that protect Kafka in the enterprise. Chapter 10 turns to project organization: collecting requirements, structuring the cluster, and testing Kafka applications under realistic conditions. Chapter 11 highlights the operational side, exploring maintenance, monitoring, scaling, and the upgrades needed to keep Kafka healthy in production. Finally, chapter 12 looks ahead at emerging trends, showing how Kafka is evolving and what architects should anticipate for the future.