Learning Apache Kafka Second Edition provides you with step-by-step,
practical examples that help you take advantage of the real power of
Kafka and handle hundreds of megabytes of messages per second from
multiple clients. This book teaches you everything you need to know,
right from setting up Kafka clusters to understanding basic blocks like
producer, broker, and consumer blocks. Once you are all set up, you will
then explore additional settings and configuration changes to achieve
ever more complex goals. You will also learn how Kafka is designed
internally and what configurations make it more effective. Finally, you
will learn how Kafka works with other tools such as Hadoop, Storm, and
so on.
Nishant Garg has over 14 years of software architecture and
development experience in various technologies, such as Java Enterprise
Edition, SOA, Spring, Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Spark, Shark,
YARN, Impala, Kafka, Storm, Solr/Lucene, NoSQL databases (such as HBase,
Cassandra, and MongoDB), and MPP databases (such as GreenPlum).
He received his MS in software systems from the Birla Institute of
Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and is currently working as a
technical architect for the Big Data R&D Group with Impetus Infotech
Pvt. Ltd. Previously, Nishant has enjoyed working with some of the most
recognizable names in IT services and financial industries, employing
full software life cycle methodologies such as Agile and SCRUM.
Nishant has also undertaken many speaking engagements on big data
technologies and is also the author of HBase Essestials, Packt
Publishing.
