A fast track to gain the skills needed to work with Apache Kafka as a Java or Python Software Engineer by taking the Kafka Crash Course developed and presented by a 2X Confluent Kafka Certified Engineer!

In this course students, Java or Python Software Developers, will be taken on a fast track journey to attaining skills required to harness the amazing power for Apache Kafka. Students gain the practical knowledge to build loosely coupled distributed systems that scale to insane levels of throughput while maintaining unprecedented resiliency.

Topics covered include:

• Kafka Basics of Key Architecture Components and Data Flow

• Kafka Admin API (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

• Kafka Producer API (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

• Kafka Consumer API(In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

• Confluent Schema Registry (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

• Kafka Connect to Import and Export Data to/from Kafka from Common Source/Sink Systems

• Overview of Stream Processing Basics with Kafka

The Apache Kafka Crash Course for Java and Python Developers is specifically designed for quickly getting Developers up to speed using Apache Kafka to be prepared for upcoming interviews or make timely yet significant contributions implementing Apache Kafka pub/sub messaging or event streaming in their current roles. The course provides a balance of fundamental theory on the inner workings of Apache Kafka's storage mechanism along with the know how to tune producer and consumer applications for performance and resiliency. This course is packed full of practical examples with code samples for putting the theoretical content into practice in two of the most popular languages used in industry, Java and Python.