Also thank you, of course, to Confluent, for sponsoring me and supporting me with both time and technical expertise while I worked on this book (note: I work for Confluent now, but didn't when I wrote the first edition).

I'd like to thank everyone at O'Reilly for everything they've done to make this book a reality. They have some of the best editors, production managers, and content reviewers that I've ever worked with.

(con't) New content includes (but not limited to):
- A major revision to building, managing, and deploying services in the age of cloud computing (remember, I started the first book in 2017: 8 years ago).
- How to handle bad data in event streams.

New content includes (but not limited to):
- An extensive focus on event design, including types of events, schema usage, mapping to streams, and changes through time.
- A major revision of the types of frameworks you can use to build your event-driven services.

You can also find it as an ebook PDF from Confluent (www.confluent.io/resources/eb...) , or printed in paper on various online sellers starting in mid-to-late October.

Apologies for the late reply - I was on vacation and unplugged!

Shift left is makes data readily available to whatever systems need it. Streams get it there in near-realtime. Iceberg Table into Silver layer is slower and typically part of a data lake. It may or may not be suitable for operations

Round - the warmest of shapes!

Gotta keep those AI models warm with something...

Hey look - AWS just released managed Apache Iceberg tables.
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Thansk Andrew. I have a few more parts coming out yet (maybe 2, definitely 1), so stay tuned.