Apache Kafka Guru – Zero to Hero in Minutes

In this course you will learn about Apache Kafka. Just in few minutes you will be on the route to be an Apache Kafka hero. You will learn in this course why 1000s of companies have built their solutions on Apache Kafka.

 

This comprehensive Kafka tutorial focuses on with building foundation about all major concepts in Apache Kafka. This part of the course is important to understand how Kafka really works and it will help you with hands-on exercises later in this course.

In the later part of this Kafka tutorial, we will have lots of hands-on exercises covering from basic to advanced topics of Kafka. You will learn how to set up Apache Kafka on your personal computer (Mac/Linux or Windows PC). Then create Kafka topics (where actual data is stored inside Kafka) & perform various operations on your topics. Later you will setup Kafka producers and Kafka consumers to send and receive data.

In more advance topics you will learn how to create your own Kafka Producers and Kafka Consumers.

 

Why Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open source distributed streaming platform which can handle 100s of billions of events in a day. Originally Kafka was built to replace legacy messaging systems with a reliable, fast and distributed streaming platform.

Apache Kafka was built and open sourced by LinkedIn in 2011. Today it has become the most sort after data streaming platform in the world. It is a tough competitor to Apache Spark Streaming engine.

Like Hadoop is a distributed storage and distributed processing platform & spark is a distributed in-memory processing engine, Apache Kafka is a distributed data streaming platform.

All these 3 systems complement each other. If you know Hadoop and Spark systems then Kafka is the missing link for connecting the dots.

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A Note For Data Engineers

This course will teach you what you will be doing most of the time at your job building Kafka applications with step by step instructions.

 

What will you achieve after completing this course

After completing Apache Kafka course, you will learn enough to build real world like Kafka applications, which is a very important skill for any Data Engineer and Data Architects today. This course will also help you in getting through Kafka interview questions for the next dream job.

 

What you will get in course

2.5 hours of On-Demand Videos  |  Working Code | Full Lifetime Access  |  Access on Mobile & TV  |  Certification of Completion

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You will learn

Section 1 – APACHE KAFKA & IT’S FEATURES

In this section of the course, we will start with building the knowledge about various key concepts of Apache Kafka. This will be important section, so make sure you watch all videos before moving to the next section of the course. Here are some of the chapters covered in this section:

1. What is Apache Kafka?
2. How Apache Kafka provides High Level of Scalability?
3. Kafka’s In-built Fault Tolerance
4. Apache Kafka is damn Popular

Section 2 – WHY APACHE KAFKA?

In this part of the course, we will discuss why we really need Apache Kafka and what kind of real world problem does it solve? Here are some of the chapters covered in this section:

1. Why we need Apache Kafka?
2. Decoupling of Systems

Section 3 – APACHE KAFKA ARCHITECTURE

It’s time to dig deeper into how Apache Kafka really works and we will do this by understanding Kafka’s architecture.

1. Apache Kafka Architecture
2. How Netflix is using Kafka

Section 4 – ANATOMY OF APACHE KAFKA

In this section of the course, we will look at various components that make Apache Kafka what it is today. This is an important section of this course. It will help you really build the core understanding about each individual component of a Kafka application.

1. What is Kafka Broker
2. Kafka Topic Explained
3. Learn about Kafka Topic Partitions
4. What are Kafka Offsets
5. How Replication Works in Kafka
6. Who is the leader
7. Let’s talk about Zookeeper
8. Kafka Producers
9. Kafka Consumers
10. Putting everything together

Section 5 – DESIGNING APACHE KAFKA APPLICATIONS

In this section, we will talk about what to consider while designing Apache Kafka applications.

1. Designing Considerations

Section 6 – EXPERT LEVEL HANDS-ON

Let’s use the knowledge and get our hands dirty by working on some real exercises.

1. Setup Apache Kafka on Local Computer (Mac & Linux users)
2. Setup Apache Kafka on Local Computer (Windows PC users)
3. How to connect to HDP Sandbox terminal (Windows PC users)
4. Let’s fire up a local cluster (Windows PC users)
5. It’s time to create some Kafka Topics
6. What Kafka topics you got?
7. Peak inside a Kafka topic
8. How to delete a Kafka topic
9. Running a Kafka Producer
10. Running a Kafka Consumer
11. What to do when a Kafka Producer or Kafka Consumer goes down in production

Section 7 – ADVANCE LEVEL HANDS-ON

In this part of the course, you will work on more advanced subjects.

1. How to create your own Kafka Producer (Java Code)
2. How to create your own Kafka Consumer (Java Code)
3. Integrating Kafka with Spark Streaming (Scala Code)
4. Running your Spark Data aggregator

Section 8 – BONUS LECTURES

1. Trick #1 – Generate data for your Kafka Console Producer
2. Trick #2 – Simulate a Real Time Streaming Data Source

Section 9 – WHAT NEXT

1. Coupons for other courses

 

We are sure that you will love this course and it will be a great investment towards your awesome career. So, why wait? Let’s get started with Apache Kafka. We will meet you in the class.

 

Let’s start your journey towards an awesome career today. We will meet you in the class.