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Learning Apache Kafka
Learning Apache Kafka - Second Edition
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112 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 26, 2015
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February 1, 2016
As I usually do, I made a specific task for myself: learn how to use Apache Kafka efficiently during the weekend. Since I’m a book kind of guy I decided that I need to read a book first before writing any code.
This book is an obvious choice since it’s been recently re-edited and seems to be the only Kafka-related book at the moment. So why not? I decided to give it a try. 1 book – 1 weekend, what could possibly go wrong?
The first red flag for me was the fact that all the code examples are in Java. How so? Kafka seemed to be an agnostic technology with APIs for both Scala & Java. This might be just a matter of author’s personal preference. The next red flag was that the code examples are very similar to what is given in official documentation. Nevertheless, I decided to read the book. Thanks to my subscription to Safari Books online library I didn’t have to pay for it.
Unfortunately, my first impression was right. The book is nothing more than a couple of blog posts contained under a hard cover. Technical details that I utterly needed were not given, instead a lot of Javadocs have been copy-pasted all-around. Code examples are too generic to have any value in them.
Frankly, this video has provided much more than all time i’ve spent reading the book.
https://vimeo.com/63040812
This book is an obvious choice since it’s been recently re-edited and seems to be the only Kafka-related book at the moment. So why not? I decided to give it a try. 1 book – 1 weekend, what could possibly go wrong?
The first red flag for me was the fact that all the code examples are in Java. How so? Kafka seemed to be an agnostic technology with APIs for both Scala & Java. This might be just a matter of author’s personal preference. The next red flag was that the code examples are very similar to what is given in official documentation. Nevertheless, I decided to read the book. Thanks to my subscription to Safari Books online library I didn’t have to pay for it.
Unfortunately, my first impression was right. The book is nothing more than a couple of blog posts contained under a hard cover. Technical details that I utterly needed were not given, instead a lot of Javadocs have been copy-pasted all-around. Code examples are too generic to have any value in them.
Frankly, this video has provided much more than all time i’ve spent reading the book.
https://vimeo.com/63040812
June 6, 2018
Very short book about Kafka, more like a blog posts combined into book.
December 27, 2018
Readable in less than an hour, nice book to get hands on with apache kafka
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