Apache Kafka Series – Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v2

• Understand Apache Kafka Ecosystem, Architecture, Core Concepts and Operations
• Master Concepts such as Topics, Partitions, Brokers, Producers, Consumers
• Start a personal Kafka development environment
• Learn major CLIs: kafka-topics, kafka-console-producer, kafka-console-consumer, kafka-consumer-groups, kafka-configs
• Create your Producers and Consumers in Java to interact with Kafka
• Program a Real World Twitter Producer & ElasticSearch Consumer
• Extended APIs Overview (Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams), Case Studies and Big Data Architecture
• Practice and Understand Log Compaction

We’ll take a step-by-step approach to learn all the fundamentals of Apache Kafka.
At the end of this course, you’ll be productive and you’ll know the following:

• The Apache Kafka Ecosystem Architecture
• The Kafka Core Concepts: Topics, Partitions, Brokers, Replicas, Producers, Consumers, and more!
• Launch your own Kafka cluster in no time using native Kafka binaries – Windows / MacOS X / Linux
• Learn and Practice using the Kafka Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Code Producer and Consumers using the Java API
• Real world project using Twitter as a source of data for a producer and ElasticSearch as a sink for our consumer
• Overview of Advanced APIs (Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams)
• Real World Case Studies and Big  Use cases
• Overview of Advanced Kafka for Administrators
• Advanced Topic Configurations
• Annexes (starting a Kafka cluster locally, using Docker, etc…)

Who this course is for:

• Developers who want to learn the Apache Kafka Fundamentals, start a cluster and write their first application
• Architects who want to understand how Apache Kafka fits into their solution architecture
• Anyone looking to learn the full theory of how Apache Kafka works as a distributed system