RESOURCES.md

Kafka Resources ↩

This document gathers Kafka related resources we have collected so far.

Articles ▴

• Stream processing with Apache Kafka and Azure Databricks, January 2023.
• Digit'Owl Articles by Jocelyn Pichonnat :
  • 101 - Kafka Connect : intégrer des systèmes externes sans se fouler les poignets, December 2022.
  • 101 - Architecture évènementielle et Apache Kafka, September 2022.
• Apache Kafka Architecture: A Complete Guide by Michael Carter, June 2020.
• IBM Developer - Apache Kafka Articles :
  • Monitoring Apache Kafka applications by Tina Selenge, July 2021.
  • Message compression in Apache Kafka by Shantanu Deshmukh, July 2021.
  • Apache Kafka fundamentals by Mickael Maison & al., December 2020.
  • How persistence works in an Apache Kafka deployment by Geoffrey Judd, June 2020.
  • What is Apache Kafka? by Gabor Tangelmayer & al., April 2020.

Blogs ▴

• Confluent Technology Blog :
  • Introducing Apache Kafka 3.7 by Stanislav Kozlovski, February 2024.
  • Introducing Apache Kafka 3.6 by Satish Duggana, October 2023.
  • Apache Kafka Message Compression by Lucia Cerchie and Dave Trioiano, September 2023.
  • How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows by Jim Galasyn, September 2023.
  • How to Tune Kafka Connect Source Connectors to Optimize Throughput by Catalin Pop, August 2023.
  • The Importance of Standardized Hashing Across Producers by Italo Mesi, August 2023.
  • What Is an Event in the Apache Kafka Ecosystem? by Lucia Cerchie, June 2023.
  • Introducing Apache Kafka 3.5 by Mickael Maison, June 2023.
  • Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing by Lucia Cerchie, February 2023.
  • What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.7.0 by Bill Bejeck, December 2020.
• A Detailed Guide of Interview Questions on Apache Kafka by Shikha Sharma, May 2023.
• Remote code execution flaw patched in Apache Kafka by Charlie Osborne, February 2023.
• Medium
  • Kafka Streams — Part I: An Introduction by Sazal Kanti Kundu, September 2023.
  • Advance Optimization Techniques for Elasticsearch by Lee Chye, September 2022.
  • Processing guarantees in Kafka by Andy Bryant, November 2019.
  • Apache Kafka Best Practices by Sriharsha Chintalapani, May 2018.
  • A Thorough Introduction to Apache Kafka by Stanislav Kozlovski, December 2017.
• Apache Kafka: 10 essential terms and concepts explained by Bill Cozens, March 2022.
• Best practices for right-sizing your Apache Kafka clusters to optimize performance and cost by Steffen Hausmann, March 2022.
• What's New in Apache Kafka 3.0.0 by Konstantine Karantasis, September 2021.
• Connect Node.js applications to Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka with Service Binding by Evan Shortiss, July 2021.
• What is Kafka? How to Build and Dockerize a Kafka Cluster by Faith Musyoka, July 2021.
• Strimzi blog posts :
  • Optimizing Kafka broker configuration by Paul Mellor, June 2021.
• Compression of messages in Kafka by Fabio Pardi, June 2021.
• Zenika Blog :
  • L’avenir de Zookeeper dans une architecture Kafka by Mohamed Karaga, April 2021.
  • Maîtriser le paramétrage des producers Kafka by Alexandre Fruchaud, November 2020.
• instacluster Blog :
  • An Introduction to Apache Kafka® Metrics for Developers by Paul Brebner, August 2023.
  • Apache Kafka® KRaft Abandons the Zoo(Keeper): Part 3—Maximum Partitions and Conclusions by Paul Brebner, January 2023.
  • Apache Kafka® KRaft Abandons the Zoo(Keeper): Part 2—Partitions and Meta-Data Performance by Paul Brebner, December 2022.
  • Apache Kafka® KRaft Abandons the Zoo(Keeper): Part 1— Partitions and Data Performance by Paul Brebner, November 2022.
  • Apache Kafka® Architecture: A Complete Guide by Michael Carter, June 2020.
  • Exploring the Apache Kafka “Castle” Part A: Architecture and Semantics by Paul Brebner, January 2018.
• Part 1: Apache Kafka for beginners - What is Apache Kafka? by Lovisa Johansson, March 2020.
• 7 mistakes when using Apache Kafka by Michal Matloka, January 2020.
• A Practical Introduction to Kafka Storage Internals by Durga Swaroop Perla, August 2018.
• Large data packets and Kafka by Anchou Bockhorn.
• Apache Kafka - How to Load Test with JMeter by Roman Aladev, December 2017.

Books ▴

• Kafka Connect by Michael Maison & Kate Stanley, 2024.
  (O'Reilly, ISBN 978-1-098-12653-7, 403 pages)
• Kafka Streams in Action (2^nd Edition) by Bill Bejeck, February 2024.
  (Manning, ISBN 978-1-6172-9868-4, 325 pages)
• Event Streaming with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB by William P. Bejeck, early 2022.
  (Manning, ISBN 978-1-6172-9868-4, 325 pages)
• Kafka in Action by Dylan Scott et al., February 2022.
  (Manning, ISBN 978-1-6172-9523-2, 272 pages)
• Kafka - The Definitive Guide by Todd Palino et al., 2021.
  (O'Reilly, IsBN 978-1-4920-4307-2, pages)
• Effective Kafka by Emil Koutanov, March 2021.
  (Leanpub, ISBN 979-8-6285-5851-5, 348 pages)
• Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB by Mitch Seymour, February 2021.
  (O'Reilly, ISBN 978-1-4920-6249-3, 432 pages)
• Kafka Streams - Real-time Stream Processing by Prashant Kumar Pandey, March 2019.
  (Manning, ISBN 978-9-3535-1802-8, 348 pages)
• Kafka Streams in Action by William P. Bejeck, August 2018.
  (Manning, ISBN 978-1-6172-9447-1, 280 pages)

News ▴

• Kafka Monthly Digests by Mickael Maison :
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: April 2024
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: March 2024.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: February 2024.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: January 2024.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: December 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: November 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: October 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: September 2023
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: August 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: July 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: June 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: May 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: April 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: March 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: February 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: January 2023.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: December 2022.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: November 2022.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: September 2022.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: August 2022.
  • Kafka Monthly Digest: July 2022.

Tools

• kafka-encryption – Kafka End to End Encryption.
• kafka-junit – easily create and run tests against one or more "real" kafka brokers.
• kafka-rest – Confluent REST Proxy for Kafka.
• kafka-ui – a Web UI for Apache Kafka Management.
• Klaw – an open source data governance tool for Apache Kafka.
• librdkakfa – an Apache Kafka C/C++ library.
• Sarama – a Go library for Apache Kafka.
• Strimzi – Kafka on Kubernetes in a few minutes.

Tutorials ▴

• Cloudera Products Docs (online) - Streaming.
• Data Flair – Kafka Tutorials.
• HowToDoInJava - Kafka tutorials:
  • Spring Boot Kafka Multiple Consumers Example by Lokesh Gupta, June 2020.
  • Spring Boot Kafka JsonSerializer Example by Lokesh Gupta, June 2020.
  • Spring Boot with Kafka – Hello World Example by Lokesh Gupta, May 2020.
  • Apache Kafka – Getting Started on Windows 10 by Lokesh Gupta, May 2020.
  • Apache Kafka – Introduction by Lokesh Gupta, May 2020.
• Workshop: Get started with Apache Kafka by Mickael Maison (IBM Developer), October 2020.
• User authentication and authorization in Apache Kafka by Vahid Hashemian and Mickael Maison (IBM Developer), November 2017.

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