Kafka in Action

Apache Kafka is a publish/subscribe messaging system. Technically, it is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log (record of transactions) service. It provides high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

Though it provides high performance, using it reliably is not trivial.

Here's the presentation I gave on the topic:

https://www.slideshare.net/ronaldo007/kafka-in-action-tech-talk