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Apache Kafka, start to finish. Apache Kafka in Action: From basics to production guides you through the concepts and skills you’ll need to deploy and administer Kafka for data pipelines, event-driven applications, and other systems that process data streams from multiple sources. Authors Anatoly Zelenin and Alexander Kropp have spent years using Kafka in real-world production environments. In this guide, they reveal their hard-won expert insights to help you avoid common Kafka pitfalls and challenges. Inside Apache Kafka in Action you’ll discover: Apache Kafka from the ground up Achieving reliability and performance Troubleshooting Kafka systems Operations, governance, and monitoring Kafka use cases, patterns, and anti-patterns Clear, concise, and practical, Apache Kafka in Action is written for IT operators, software engineers, and IT architects working with Kafka every day. Chapter by chapter, it guides you through the skills you need to deliver and maintain reliable and fault-tolerant data-driven applications. About the Technology Apache Kafka is the gold standard streaming data platform for real-time analytics, event sourcing, and stream processing. Acting as a central hub for distributed data, it enables seamless flow between producers and consumers via a publish-subscribe model. Kafka easily handles millions of events per second, and its rock-solid design ensures high fault tolerance and smooth scalability. About the Book Apache Kafka in Action is a practical guide for IT professionals who are integrating Kafka into data-intensive applications and infrastructures. The book covers everything from Kafka fundamentals to advanced operations, with interesting visuals and real-world examples. Readers will learn to set up Kafka clusters, produce and consume messages, handle real-time streaming, and integrate Kafka into enterprise systems. This easy-to-follow book emphasizes building reliable Kafka applications and taking advantage of its distributed architecture for scalability and resilience. What's Inside Master Kafka’s distributed streaming capabilities Implement real-time data solutions Integrate Kafka into enterprise environments Build and manage Kafka applications Achieve fault tolerance and scalability About the Reader For IT operators, software architects and developers. No experience with Kafka required. About the Authors Anatoly Zelenin is a Kafka expert known for workshops across Europe, especially in banking and manufacturing. Alexander Kropp specializes in Kafka and Kubernetes, contributing to cloud platform design and monitoring. Quotes A great introduction. Even experienced users will go back to it again and again. - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat Approachable, practical, well-illustrated, and easy to follow. A must-read. - Olena Kutsenko, Confluent A zero to hero journey to understanding and using Kafka! - Anthony Nandaa, Microsoft Thoughtfully explores a wide range of topics. A wealth of valuable information seamlessly presented and easily accessible. - Olena Babenko, Aiven Oy

Amazon Redshift Cookbook provides practical techniques for utilizing AWS's managed data warehousing service effectively. With this book, you'll learn to create scalable and secure data analytics solutions, tackle data integration challenges, and leverage Redshift's advanced features like data sharing and generative AI capabilities. What this Book will help me do Create end-to-end data analytics solutions from ingestion to reporting using Amazon Redshift. Optimize the performance and security of Redshift implementations to meet enterprise standards. Leverage Amazon Redshift for zero-ETL ingestion and advanced concurrency scaling. Integrate Redshift with data lakes for enhanced data processing versatility. Implement generative AI and machine learning solutions directly within Redshift environments. Author(s) Shruti Worlikar, Harshida Patel, and Anusha Challa are seasoned data experts who bring together years of experience with Amazon Web Services and data analytics. Their combined expertise enables them to offer actionable insights, hands-on recipes, and proven strategies for implementing and optimizing Amazon Redshift-based solutions. Who is it for? This book is best suited for data analysts, data engineers, and architects who are keen on mastering modern data warehouse solutions using Redshift. Readers should have some knowledge of data warehousing and familiarity with cloud concepts. Ideal for professionals looking to migrate on-premises systems or build cloud-native analytics pipelines leveraging Redshift.

Are your data systems slowing down your AI initiatives? The potential of AI to revolutionize business is undeniable, but many organizations struggle to bridge the gap between ambitious ideas and real-world results. The cause? Traditional data architectures remain too rigid and siloed to support today's dynamic, data-intensive demands. If you're a data leader searching for a solution, composable data architecture is the answer. This essential guide provides a clear, actionable framework for you to discover how this modular, adaptable approach empowers data teams, streamlines pipelines, and fuels continuous innovation. So, you'll not only keep pace with your most agile competitors—you'll surpass them. Understand the fundamental concepts that make composable architecture a game-changer Design pipelines that optimize performance and adapt to your organization's unique data needs See how composable architecture breaks down silos, enabling faster, more collaborative data processes Discover tools to streamline data management of high-volume streams or multicloud environments Leverage flexible architecture that simplifies data sharing, enabling easier access to insights

Data projects are an intrinsic part of an organization's technical ecosystem, but data engineers in many companies continue to work on problems that others have already solved. This hands-on guide shows you how to provide valuable data by focusing on various aspects of data engineering, including data ingestion, data quality, idempotency, and more. Author Bartosz Konieczny guides you through the process of building reliable end-to-end data engineering projects, from data ingestion to data observability, focusing on data engineering design patterns that solve common business problems in a secure and storage-optimized manner. Each pattern includes a user-facing description of the problem, solutions, and consequences that place the pattern into the context of real-life scenarios. Throughout this journey, you'll use open source data tools and public cloud services to apply each pattern. You'll learn: Challenges data engineers face and their impact on data systems How these challenges relate to data system components Useful applications of data engineering patterns How to identify and fix issues with your current data components Technology-agnostic solutions to new and existing data projects, with open source implementation examples Bartosz Konieczny is a freelance data engineer who's been coding since 2010. He's held various senior hands-on positions that allowed him to work on many data engineering problems in batch and stream processing.