When any corporate application operates, data is generated: log files, metrics, information about user activity, outgoing messages, and others. Proper management of this data is as important as the data itself. If you're an architect, developer, or industrial engineer new to Apache Kafka, this updated book will teach you how to use the Kafka streaming platform to process data streams in real time. Additional chapters cover Kafka's AdminClient API, transactions, new security features, and tooling changes. Kafka engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn explain how to use the platform to deploy production Kafka clusters, write robust event-driven microservices, and build scalable applications for streaming data processing. You'll learn Kafka design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architectural details through detailed examples.