Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners

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Free Online Course: Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners is taught by Stephane Maarek.

Overview
  • Learn the Apache Kafka basics. Learn how to use this enterprise-scale data streaming technology to read and write data from multiple sources—without managing multiple integrations.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Intro to Apache Kafka
    • Apache Kafka in five minutes
    1. Kafka Theory
    • Kafka theory overview
    • Topics, partitions, and offsets
    • Brokers and topics
    • Topic replication
    • Producers and message keys
    • Consumer and consumer group
    • Consumer offsets and delivery semantics
    • Kafka broker discovery
    • ZooKeeper
    • Kafka guarantees
    • Theory roundup
    2. Starting Kafka
    • Important: Starting Kafka
    • macOS: Download and set up Kafka in PATH
    • macOS: Using brew
    • macOS: Start ZooKeeper and Kafka
    • Linux: Download and set up Kafka in PATH
    • Linux: Start ZooKeeper and Kafka
    • Windows: Download and set up Kafka in PATH
    • Windows: Start ZooKeeper and Kafka
    3. Command Line Interface (CLI) 101
    • CLI introduction
    • Kafka topics CLI
    • Kafka console producer CLI
    • Kafka console consumer CLI
    • Kafka consumers in groups
    • Kafka consumer groups CLI
    • Resetting offsets
    • Kafka Tool UI
    4. Kafka Java Programming 101
    • Intro to Kafka programming
    • Creating a Kafka project
    • Java producer
    • Java producer callbacks
    • Java producer with keys
    • Java consumer
    • Java consumer inside consumer group
    • Java consumer with threads
    • Java consumer seek and assign
    • Client bidirectional compatibility
    5. Kafka Real-World Project
    • Real-world project overview
    6. Kafka Twitter Producer and Advanced Configurations
    • Producer and advanced configurations overview
    • Twitter setup
    • Producer, part 1: Writing a Twitter client
    • Producer, part 2: Writing the Kafka producer
    • Producer configurations introduction
    • Acks and min.insync.replicas
    • Retries and max.in.flight.requests.per.connection
    • Idempotent producer
    • Producer, part 3: Safe producer
    • Producer compression
    • Producer batching
    • Producer, part 4: High throughput producer
    • Producer default partitions and key hashing
    • Refactoring the project
    7. Kafka Elasticsearch Consumer and Advanced Configurations
    • Consumer and advanced configuration overview
    • Setting up Elasticsearch in the cloud
    • Elasticsearch 101
    • Consumer, part 1: Set up project
    • Consumer, part 2: Write the consumer and send to Elasticsearch
    • Consumer, part 3: Delivery semantics
    • Delivery semantics for consumers
    • Consumer, part 3: Idempotence
    • Consumer poll behavior, part 1
    • Consumer offset commit strategies
    • Consumer, part 4: Manual commit of offsets
    • Consumer, part 5: Performance improvement using batching
    • Consumer offsets reset behavior
    • Consumer, part 6: Replaying data
    • Consumer internal threads
    8. Kafka Ecosystem and Real-World Architectures
    • Kafka in the real world
    9. Kafka Extended APIs
    • Kafka Connect introduction
    • Kafka Connect Twitter: Hands-on example
    • Kafka Streams introduction
    • Kafka Streams: Hands-on example
    • Kafka Schema Registry introduction
    10. Real-World Insights and Case Studies
    • ZooKeeper
    • Case study: MovieFlix
    • Case study: GetTaxi
    • Case study: MySocialMedia
    • Case study: MyBank
    • Case study: Big data ingestion
    • Case study: Logging and metrics aggregation
    11. Kafka in the Enterprise for Admins
    • Kafka cluster setup, high-level architecture overview
    • Kafka monitoring and operations
    • Kafka security
    • ZooKeeper
    12. Advanced Topic Configurations
    • Changing a topic configuration
    • Segment and indexes
    • Log cleanup policies
    • Log cleanup delete
    • Log compaction theory
    • Log compaction practice
    • min.insync.replicas reminder
    • Unclean leader election
    13. Annexes
    • What are annexes?
    14. Starting Kafka Differently
    • Annex 1: Overview
    • Starting Kafka with the Confluent CLI
    • Starting a multibroker Kafka cluster using binaries
    • Start Kafka development environment using Docker
    • Starting a multibroker Kafka cluster using Docker
    • Kafka advertised host setting
    • Starting Kafka on a remote machine