This course is Kafka basics course and is for Kafka beginners.

This course covers all the basic concepts of Kafka like:

• What is event streaming?

• What is Kafka and what are its industry use cases?

• Kafka components like - Topic, Partitions, Offsets etc.

• What are producers and how they write data to Kafka.

• What are consumers and how they read data from Kafka.

• What is a consumer group?

• Architecture of Kafka.

• What is a zookeeper?

• What is a broker?

• Partition distribution and replication in distributed architecture.

How to setup Kafka locally on your machine:

• Download and setup Kafka on Linux.

• Configure properties files and Start Kafka servers (zookeeper and broker) on Linux.

• Download and setup Kafka on Windows.

• Configure properties files and Start Kafka servers (zookeeper and broker) on Windows.

How to use Kafka CLI:

• Create topics using CLI - set partition and replication-factor

• Create producers using CLI and write data to Kafka topic

• Create consumers using CLI and read data from Kafka topic

• Create consumer group using CLI

Finally learn how to develop Kafka clients in Java:

• Develop Kafka producer in Java which will write data to Kafka.

• Write data to Kafka in Key-Value pair using producer.

• Develop Kafka consumer in Java which will read data from Kafka.

• Run multiple consumers in a group and observe the behavior.

By the end of the course you will be comfortable in Kafka basics and will have a good understanding of how to create your own Kafka producers and consumers.