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Kafka Resource Recommendations

Book Recommendations#

If I had to pick one book on Kafka, it would be Kafka: The Definitive Guide The simple reason being, it was written by one of the creators of Kafka. The content is helpful for both beginners and experts. The book touches on some important topics like, Kafka Internals, best practices and guidelines for application development based on Kafka, and how to run Kafka on production. Confluent is giving away a free copy

Another book I highly recommend is I Heart Logs written by Jay Kreps, one of the creators of Kafka. This books discusses the foundational concepts of Kafka, which is primarily a distributed commit-only log. Confluent is giving away a free copy See below for a link to a video on this topic.

Need a quick overview?#

More in-depth explanation#

- [Video: Introduction to Apache Kafka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEg40Te8pnE) - [Video: I love Logs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJuo_bLSW6s) - [Video: Kafka Tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkz1SCf5iB4enAR00Z46JwY9GGkaS2NON)

Other resources#