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Kafka Streams is a library designed to allow for easy stream processing of data flowing into a Kafka cluster. Stream processing has become one of the biggest needs for companies over the last few years as quick data insight becomes more and more important but current solutions can be complex and large, requiring additional tools to perform lookups and aggregations.

Kafka Streams in Action teaches readers everything they need to know to implement stream processing on data flowing into their Kafka platform, allowing them to focus on getting more from their data without sacrificing time or effort. By the end of the book, readers will be ready to use Kafka Streams in their projects to reap the benefits of the insight their data holds quickly and easily.

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Why is GraphQL the most innovative technology for fetching data since Ajax? By providing a query language for your APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with your data, GraphQL presents a clear alternative to REST and ad hoc web service architectures. With this practical guide, Alex Banks and Eve Porcello deliver a clear learning path for frontend web developers, backend engineers, and project and product managers looking to get started with GraphQL.

You’ll explore graph theory, the graph data structure, and GraphQL types before learning hands-on how to build a schema for a photo-sharing application. This book also introduces you to Apollo Client, a popular framework you can use to connect GraphQL to your user interface.

• Explore graph theory and review popular graph examples in use today
• Learn how GraphQL applies database querying methods to the internet
• Create a schema for a PhotoShare application that serves as a roadmap and a contract between the frontend and backend teams
• Use JavaScript to build a fully functioning GraphQL service and Apollo to implement a client
• Learn how to prepare GraphQL APIs and clients for production

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React Quickly is for anyone who wants to learn React.js fast. This hands-on book teaches you the concepts you need with lots of examples, tutorials, and a large main project that gets built throughout the book.

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Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique indeed. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components. This practical guide presents a collection of repeatable, generic patterns to help make the development of reliable distributed systems far more approachable and efficient.

Author Brendan Burns—Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure—demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system.

•Understand how patterns and reusable components enable the rapid development of reliable distributed systems•Use the side-car, adapter, and ambassador patterns to split your application into a group of containers on a single machine•Explore loosely coupled multi-node distributed patterns for replication, scaling, and communication between the components•Learn distributed system patterns for large-scale batch data processing covering work-queues, event-based processing, and coordinated workflows