Apache Kafka Essential Training: Getting Started

Introduction

• Getting started with Apache Kafka

1. Introduction to Kafka

• Message queues
• What is Kafka?
• Benefits of Kafka
• Kafka use cases
• Setting up the exercise files
• Setting up Kafka

2. Basic Concepts

• Messages
• Topics
• Kafka brokers
• Logs in Kafka
• Producers and consumers

3. Using Kafka Command Line

• Kafka client scripts
• Creating a topic
• Exploring topics
• Publishing messages to topics
• Using console consumer
• Topics management
• Review Kafka setup

4. Kafka Partitions and Groups

• Intro to partitions
• Creating topics with partitions
• Publishing with keys
• Consumer groups
• Consumer offset management
• Consuming partitioned data

5. Kafka Java Programming

• Kafka client libraries
• Creating a producer in Java
• Publishing messages in Java
• Creating a consumer in Java
• Consuming messages in Java

6. Use Case Project

• Kafka basics use case: Problem definition
• Setting up topics
• Producing and consuming data with scripts
• Producing and consuming data with Java

Conclusion

• Extending your Kafka knowledge