I saw this on Twitter today and thought it was a great question:
Mine is probably this one from Jay Kreps:
What would be your #1 recommendation for a paper/blog about Kafka?
This one from Martin Kleppmann: Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea) — Martin Kleppmann’s blog really helped me to get my head around log-based data systems.
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Strictly speaking not a Kafka paper but the ideas here are important.
For those interested in architecture, this one is equally important: Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside | the morning paper
(I actually learnt this the hard way and didn’t read this paper until around 2012).
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I found a lot of inspiration from Neil Avery’s blog series Journey to Event Driven. I found that it really put into words things that I had been thinking about and known about but had trouble articulating.
Event-Driven Architectures: Why Event-First Thinking Changes Everything | Confluent (Links to parts 2-4 at bottom of blog).
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When I started learning about Kafka, I found some really useful articles and tutorials on Dzone and Medium. Since that was early 2018, I assume they are somewhat outdated now.
Nowadays I would recommend an online course actually, for anyone interested in starting to use Kafka. There is a very good serie of courses on Udemy by Stephane Marek.
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