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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…

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Apache Kafka is the backbone of almost every streaming-based system today.

The solutions created and implemented in Kafka are the key concepts in every streaming system that you will work with.

This book will allow you to fully understand the Kafka architecture, its internals, and APIs and allow you to become an expert in this technology.

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