Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you’ll understand how Kafka works and how it’s designed. Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino show you how to deploy production Kafka clusters; secure, tune, and monitor them; write rock-solid applications that use Kafka; and build scalable stream-processing applications.
Learn how Kafka compares to other queues, and where it fits in the big data ecosystem
Dive into Kafka’s internal design
Pick up best practices for developing applications that use Kafka
Understand the best way to deploy Kafka in production monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
The world of the twenty-first century is, more than ever, global and impersonal. Criminal and terrorist threats, both physical and on the Internet, increase by the day. The demand for better methods of identification is growing, not only in companies and organizations, but also in the world at large.
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The First International Workshop on Data Quality in Collaborative Information Systems was held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 19-22nd March, 2008, in New Delhi, India. The present volume contains the texts for four accepted papers and two invited papers presented at the workshop,...
The faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins, and driven by the astronomic prices realised on the global market.
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This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and comprehend what they read using the Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving [TAPPS] method. First it outlines and illustrates the method that good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas. Then it provides practice in applying this method to a variety of...
Whether you're a hobbyist or a pro, look what you can do with Elements 4!
Photoshop Elements is all grown up — a powerful program that's easy to use and gives professional results. This book's step-by-step instructions and full-color examples help you take creative control of Photoshop Elements' tools. From sharpening...
