This book, helping us to see beyond the cliche 'Kafkaesque', is illustrated by legendary underground artist Robert Crumb.

Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century. In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.

Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.

Examines the infamous writer's life and work. Reveals Kafka's dark humor, as well as his paranoia. Explores the author's unique literary language.

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it’s log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you’re an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds. Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn who are responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters, write reliable event-driven microservices, and build scalable stream-processing applications with this platform. Through detailed examples, you’ll learn Kafka’s design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the controller, and the storage layer. Understand publish-subscribe messaging and how it fits in the big data ecosystem. Explore Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages Understand Kafka patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery Get best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka Manage Kafka in production, and learn to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks Learn the most critical metrics among Kafka’s operational measurements Explore how Kafka’s stream delivery capabilities make it a perfect source for stream processing systems

Master the wicked-fast Apache Kafka streaming platform through hands-on examples and real-world projects. In Kafka in Action you will learn: Understanding Apache Kafka concepts Setting up and executing basic ETL tasks using Kafka Connect Using Kafka as part of a large data project team Performing administrative tasks Producing and consuming event streams Working with Kafka from Java applications Implementing Kafka as a message queue Kafka in Action is a fast-paced introduction to every aspect of working with Apache Kafka. Starting with an overview of Kafka's core concepts, you'll immediately learn how to set up and execute basic data movement tasks and how to produce and consume streams of events. Advancing quickly, you’ll soon be ready to use Kafka in your day-to-day workflow, and start digging into even more advanced Kafka topics. About the technology Think of Apache Kafka as a high performance software bus that facilitates event streaming, logging, analytics, and other data pipeline tasks. With Kafka, you can easily build features like operational data monitoring and large-scale event processing into both large and small-scale applications. About the book Kafka in Action introduces the core features of Kafka, along with relevant examples of how to use it in real applications. In it, you’ll explore the most common use cases such as logging and managing streaming data. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to handle both basic developer- and admin-based tasks in a Kafka-focused team. What's inside Kafka as an event streaming platform Kafka producers and consumers from Java applications Kafka as part of a large data project About the reader For intermediate Java developers or data engineers. No prior knowledge of Kafka required. About the author Dylan Scott is a software developer in the insurance industry. Viktor Gamov is a Kafka-focused developer advocate. At Confluent, Dave Klein helps developers, teams, and enterprises harness the power of event streaming with Apache Kafka. Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED 1 Introduction to Kafka 2 Getting to know Kafka PART 2 APPLYING KAFK 3 Designing a Kafka project 4 Producers: Sourcing data 5 Consumers: Unlocking data 6 Brokers 7 Topics and partitions 8 Kafka storage 9 Management: Tools and logging PART 3 GOING FURTHER 10 Protecting Kafka 11 Schema registry 12 Stream processing with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB

Franz Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, bringing to it a unique literary language of transformation and escapism. Alienated from his roots, his family and his own body, Kafka's fascinating existence is superbly illuminated in Introducing Kafka by the infamous underground comic artist Robert Crumb.

Provides a biography of Franz Kafka along with critical views of his work.

Design and administer fast, reliable enterprise messaging systems with Apache Kafka About This Book Build efficient real-time streaming applications in Apache Kafka to process data streams of data Master the core Kafka APIs to set up Apache Kafka clusters and start writing message producers and consumers A comprehensive guide to help you get a solid grasp of the Apache Kafka concepts in Apache Kafka with pracitcalpractical examples Who This Book Is For If you want to learn how to use Apache Kafka and the different tools in the Kafka ecosystem in the easiest possible manner, this book is for you. Some programming experience with Java is required to get the most out of this book What You Will Learn Learn the basics of Apache Kafka from scratch Use the basic building blocks of a streaming application Design effective streaming applications with Kafka using Spark, Storm &, and Heron Understand the importance of a low -latency , high- throughput, and fault-tolerant messaging system Make effective capacity planning while deploying your Kafka Application Understand and implement the best security practices In Detail Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform that acts as a messaging queue or an enterprise messaging system. It lets you publish and subscribe to a stream of records, and process them in a fault-tolerant way as they occur. This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and architecting enterprise-grade streaming applications using Apache Kafka and other big data tools. It includes best practices for building such applications, and tackles some common challenges such as how to use Kafka efficiently and handle high data volumes with ease. This book first takes you through understanding the type messaging system and then provides a thorough introduction to Apache Kafka and its internal details. The second part of the book takes you through designing streaming application using various frameworks and tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and more. Once you grasp the basics, we will take you through more advanced concepts in Apache Kafka such as capacity planning and security. By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need to be comfortable with using Apache Kafka, and to design efficient streaming data applications with it. Style and approach A step-by –step, comprehensive guide filled with practical and real- world examples

Everything you need to implement stream processing on Apache Kafka? using Kafka Streams and the kqsIDB event streaming database. This totally revised new edition of Kafka Streams in Action has been expanded to cover more of the Kafka platform used for building event-based applications. You'll also find full coverage of ksqlDB, an event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications. In Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition you'll learn how to: Design streaming applications in Kafka Streams with the KStream and the Processor API Integrate external systems with Kafka Connect Enforce data compatibility with Schema Registry Build applications that respond immediately to events in either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB Craft materialized views over streams with ksqlDB Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology The lightweight Kafka Streams library provides exactly the power and simplicity you need for event-based applications, real-time event processing, and message handling in microservices. The ksqlDB database makes it a snap to create applications that respond immediately to events, such as real-time push and pull updates. About the book Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition teaches you to implement stream processing within the Kafka platform. In this easy-to-follow book, you'll explore real-world examples to collect, transform, and aggregate data, work with multiple processors, and handle real-time events. You'll also dive into processing event data with ksqlDB. Practical to the very end, it finishes with testing and operational aspects, such as monitoring, debugging, and gives you the opportunity to explore a few end-to-end projects. About the reader Assumes experience with building Java applications, concepts like threading, serialization, and with distributed systems. No knowledge of Kafka or streaming applications required. About the author Bill Bejeck is a Confluent engineer and a Kafka Streams contributor with over 15 years of software development experience. Bill is also a committer on the Apache Kafka project.