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.

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Katya Gorshkova

Kafka for Architects, by Katya Gorshkova, focuses on the architectural decisions around Kafka rather than APIs or client code. It looks at how Kafka fits into large, long-lived systems, and how choices around event streams, data contracts, and cluster design affect reliability, scaling, and team boundaries over time.

The book walks through Kafka’s role in enterprise software and event-driven architectures, with concrete discussion of things like logging and telemetry pipelines, microservices communication, and streaming data flows. It also spends time on patterns that hold up in production, along with the failure modes and anti-patterns that tend to show up when Kafka is treated as “just another queue.”

If you’re responsible for system design, platform decisions, or aligning technical architecture with business needs, this book is meant to help you reason about where Kafka belongs, how it changes your system’s shape, and what tradeoffs come with it.

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