"Red Hat AMQ Streams for Cloud-Native Messaging"
"Red Hat AMQ Streams for Cloud-Native Messaging" is a comprehensive guide designed for architects, engineers, and operators seeking to build resilient, scalable, and secure messaging infrastructures for modern cloud-native environments. The book opens with a deep exploration of messaging paradigms for distributed systems, covering advanced patterns for event-driven architectures, key semantic guarantees, and the critical decoupling mechanisms enabled by message brokers. With practical guidance on choosing the right platform, readers will gain a clear understanding of where Red Hat AMQ Streams excels within the vibrant CNCF ecosystem.
The book thoroughly dissects the internals of Red Hat AMQ Streams, highlighting its Kafka roots while clarifying features and integration points unique to enterprise deployments. Detailed chapters walk readers through every stage of deployment—including declarative resource management, cluster sizing, and robust strategies for multi-cloud, multi-cluster topologies using Kubernetes and OpenShift. Emphasis is placed on security, with best practices for identity management, encryption, RBAC, compliance requirements, and vulnerability management to ensure enterprise-grade protection across all messaging flows.
Building on robust foundations, the book further addresses operational excellence and ongoing innovation. Readers will find authoritative advice on observability, troubleshooting, and performance tuning using leading tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing stacks. Essential topics such as CI/CD automation, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and integration with edge, IoT, and analytics platforms empower organizations to make AMQ Streams an integral part of their digital transformation journey. Concluding with a forward-looking view on emerging trends in messaging and streaming, this guide provides everything needed to master Red Hat AMQ Streams in the cloud-native era.