Using Kafka on Confluent

Overview

Enhance your data engineering expertise with practical skills in real-time data handling and event streaming using Confluent Kafka. This course offers direct, hands-on experience in setting up and managing Kafka clusters, connecting to diverse data sources, and building robust data pipelines for modern applications. Throughout this course, you'll explore the industry-specific applications of and delve into various features and functionalities. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Know the architecture of Kafka and Confluent. - Explain the importance of Kafka Connect used to connect to other data sources. - Assess the capabilities of producers for publishing data records and consumers for retrieving data. - Applying concepts of Kafka to manage data. - Interpret replication and Kafka streams on Confluent. - Explore Kafka's full data handling capabilities on Confluent. This course is suited for freshers, IT professionals, data architects, and project managers looking to advance in streaming data and event-driven architecture. Basic understanding of RDBMS and data management will be useful but is not mandatory. Gain the confidence and technical skillset to architect, manage, and scale real-time data solutions with Confluent Kafka.

Syllabus

Getting Started with Confluent

In this module, you will learn about the importance of Confluent Kafka and it's emergence in handling data. Set up a confluent account for creating topics, and partitions for handling data in clusters.

Kafka Operations and Core Concepts

In this module, Learn to manage data through core operations prevalent in Kafka. Create data ingestion models with consumers and data creation models with producers to handle large clusters of data

Kafka Security and Monitoring

In the third week of the course, learners will learn to secure data in Kafka while monitoring data for inconsistencies. They will also integrate data mesh principles in Kafka, which offers organizations a scalable and resilient foundation for decentralized data management and processing.

Course Project

This module is designed to assess an individual on the various concepts and teachings covered in this course. Evaluate your knowledge with a comprehensive graded quiz on Confluent.