The first is definitely worth a read, even the chapters that are perhaps somewhat out of date (e.g., cluster replication focused on Mirror Maker v1) are still useful in how they describe the various ways to run multiple clusters - hot/hot, hot/warm, stretch etc.
Also, the chapter on monitoring and which metrics offer the most value is great for anyone looking to set up some decent monitoring off the back of Prometheus' jmx_exporter or Datadog's similar JMX functionality and Grafana etc. I also really recommend I <3 Logs by Jay Kreps, it's short, high level, I think I finished it on one bus ride, but gives a great description of the log-based architecture LinkedIn built around Kafka, and was instrumental in convincing me, and my bosses(!) that Kafka would be an ideal backbone for our data streams in my previous company. Cheers, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 2:23 AM SuarezMiguelC <suarezmigu...@protonmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello Apache Kafka Community!... A quick question: > > I am using right now kafka a LOT (with kafka connect, streams with > nodejs...) in my arquitecture and, my knowledge has increased because of > this, however, I'm looking for more experience, so, I downloaded the Kakfa > book, my question is: Since there are 2 volumes, is the second just a > better update?, or should I read the first one too?. > > Thanks in advance, > Miguel Suárez
