Happy first day of June! And welcome back to your #1 source for up-to-date Apache Kafka® resources. This week, we’re highlighting some classics: the definitive guide to Kafka, Mitch Seymour’s book about Kafka Streams, and Kafka Internals. Remember, if you’ve been working on something Kafka-related, feel free to submit your own resource by emailing info@confluent.io!

Apache Kafka Resources:

• Check out the "Kafka Definitive Guide" by Gwen Shapira et al. to get the context of Kafka in the data ecosystem.
• “Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqldb” by Mitch Seymour is a introduction for beginners that makes learning Kafka fun.
• Want to get deep, deep into Kafka internals? View our course taught by none other than Jun Rao, one of the original co-creators of Kafka!

Apache Flink® Resources:

You’ve got a realtime data source with Kafka; Flink is a natural ecosystemic counterpart enabling the analysis of that data. If you’re interested in learning more about it, we’ve got you covered:

• What even is Flink? David Anderson gives an introduction in this video.
• A video on Flink Windowing Types by community member Francesco Tisiot.

Terminal Tip of the Week:

A few weeks ago, we discussed the history command. Did you know that you can use !{history_id} to run a command with that id from history? So if your history shows:

❯ history -2
 5467  ls
 5468  cat LICENSE.md

You can run:

❯ !5467
Docs
Downloads
Library

Many thanks to Joseph Morais for this one!

Links From Around the Web:

• Watch the ultimate showdown: Mantis Shrimp vs Octopus
• A list to end all lists: Sindre Sorhus’s awesome list
• Explore a universe of fries

In Other News:

Registration for Current 2023 is now open! There’s more than 100 sessions at Current, all focused on realtime data streaming. Join us, we’d love to have you! If you have specific (or general, we’re not picky) questions about Kafka, feel free to join our Confluent Community Slack and ask away!

By the way…

We hope you enjoyed our curated assortment of resources! If you’d like to provide feedback, suggest ideas for content you’d like to see, or you want to submit your own resource for consideration, send us an email at info@confluent.io!

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