January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
12h 14m
English
Overview
Incorporate Kafka successfully into large scale enterprise architectures.
Kafka for Architects teaches you how to incorporate Kafka into enterprise applications. This book stays above the code-level details, focusing instead on how to use Kafka to achieve your technical and business goals.
In Kafka for Architects you will find:
Architects across industries are turning to Kafka for its unparalleled speed, reliability, and scalability. In Kafka for Architects, author Katya Gorshkova lays out how Kafka fits into complex system designs, expertly illustrating how you can use Kafka for effective logging, telemetry, microservices communication, and more in event driven enterprise applications.
About the Technology
Kafka is a powerful distributed event streaming platform perfect for the real-time data pipelines you find in all modern software systems. As a software architect, it’s mission critical to understand how Kafka impacts every aspect of system design, deployment, management, and maintenance. This unique book provides the architectural principles you need to integrate Kafka effectively into enterprise applications at any scale.
About the Book
Kafka for Architects focuses on architectural principles rather than code, showing exactly how to align Kafka with your organization’s technical and business goals. You’ll explore proven patterns and anti-patterns, integration strategies, and the broader Kafka ecosystem—from event pipelines to microservices communication.
What's Inside
About the Reader
For working and aspiring enterprise and solutions architects.
About the Author
Katya Gorshkova is a consulting engineer and architect in the FinTech sector with extensive experience designing applications for real-time data processing.
Quotes
The guide the industry has been waiting for to move beyond the hype.
- Adi Polak, Confluent
Great insights and understanding on using Apache Kafka.
- Neil Buesing, Kinetic Edge
Clear, direct, and grounded in experience.
- Simon Aubury, Independent Consultant
A valuable resource for understanding Kafka from both viewpoints, architect’s and developer’s.
- Ricardo Ferreira, Redis
Kafka for Architects teaches you how to incorporate Kafka into enterprise applications. This book stays above the code-level details, focusing instead on how to use Kafka to achieve your technical and business goals.
In Kafka for Architects you will find:
- Kafka’s role in enterprise software
- The event-driven architecture pattern
- Data streaming solutions
- Event driven architecture in messaging systems
- Explaining Kafka clusters
- Data streaming solutions
- Designing data contracts
- Kafka in real world use cases
Architects across industries are turning to Kafka for its unparalleled speed, reliability, and scalability. In Kafka for Architects, author Katya Gorshkova lays out how Kafka fits into complex system designs, expertly illustrating how you can use Kafka for effective logging, telemetry, microservices communication, and more in event driven enterprise applications.
About the Technology
Kafka is a powerful distributed event streaming platform perfect for the real-time data pipelines you find in all modern software systems. As a software architect, it’s mission critical to understand how Kafka impacts every aspect of system design, deployment, management, and maintenance. This unique book provides the architectural principles you need to integrate Kafka effectively into enterprise applications at any scale.
About the Book
Kafka for Architects focuses on architectural principles rather than code, showing exactly how to align Kafka with your organization’s technical and business goals. You’ll explore proven patterns and anti-patterns, integration strategies, and the broader Kafka ecosystem—from event pipelines to microservices communication.
What's Inside
- Event-driven architecture patterns: CQRS, event sourcing, and microservices integration
- Efficient messaging systems: message production, consumption, batching, partitioning, and throughput
- Kafka clusters: cluster architecture, topics, partitions, replication, and configuration
- Designing data contracts: event schema design, schema evolution, governance, and use of Schema Registry
About the Reader
For working and aspiring enterprise and solutions architects.
About the Author
Katya Gorshkova is a consulting engineer and architect in the FinTech sector with extensive experience designing applications for real-time data processing.
Quotes
The guide the industry has been waiting for to move beyond the hype.
- Adi Polak, Confluent
Great insights and understanding on using Apache Kafka.
- Neil Buesing, Kinetic Edge
Clear, direct, and grounded in experience.
- Simon Aubury, Independent Consultant
A valuable resource for understanding Kafka from both viewpoints, architect’s and developer’s.
- Ricardo Ferreira, Redis
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