Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes an event-streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. Throughout his career, Viktor developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low-latency, scalable, and highly available distributed systems.

Viktor is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics, and is a regular at events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He is the coauthor of Enterprise Web Development (O’Reilly Media, Inc.).

Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka!

books & videos by Viktor Gamov

Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
  • Course duration: 37m
Included with a Manning Online subscription

What exactly is a streaming platform? Viktor Gamov explains what a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka is and shows some of the use cases and design patterns around its use, including several examples of where it is solving real business problems.

Kafka in Action
  • January 2022
  • ISBN 9781617295232
  • 272 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Data Science / Big Data / Stream Processing

Kafka in Action introduces the core features of Kafka, along with relevant examples of how to use it in real applications. In it, you’ll explore the most common use cases such as logging and managing streaming data. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to handle both basic developer- and admin-based tasks in a Kafka-focused team.