(Follow-up to Kafka Cluster Monitoring and Cloud Deployment, originally posted 2016-12-10) In our previous blog, we explored the essentials of Kafka cluster management, monitoring Kafka clusters, and deploying Kafka in cloud environments. This time, we’ll go further into Kafka Streams to tackle complex event processing (CEP) and introduce best practices for monitoring Kafka deployments in production for high-performance scenarios. Kafka Streams, with its event-driven architecture, is an ideal framework for real-time CEP, while Kafka’s robust monitoring options ensure stability and performance in high-throughput environments. Table of Contents Understanding Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Kafka Streams Key Concepts in CEP Kafka…