Apache Kafka Architecture - Kafka's Internal Components and How They Work

This advanced course explains Apache Kafka’s internal architecture and how its brokers, clients, replication protocol, control plane, transactions, retention, storage, scaling, and geo-replication support distributed event streaming. It includes hands-on exercises with producers, consumers, transactions, and cluster linking.

Syllabus

Apache Kafka Architecture Course Trailer | Confluent Developer.
Apache Kafka Architecture: Overview of Kafka's Internal Components.
Apache Kafka Producer Client (Hands On).
Apache Kafka Brokers: Introduction to the Data Plane.
Data Plane – Apache Kafka's Replication Protocol.
The Apache Kafka Control Plane – ZooKeeper vs. KRaft.
Apache Kafka Consumers and Consumer Group Protocol.
Apache Kafka Consumers and Consumer Group Protocol (Hands On).
Configuring Apache Kafka Durability, Availability, and Ordering Guarantees.
Apache Kafka Transactions: Message Delivery and Exactly-Once Semantics.
Apache Kafka Transactions: Message Delivery and Processing (Hands On).
Apache Kafka Topic Compaction.
What Is Tiered Storage?.
Apache Kafka Cluster Scaling and Automation.
Geo-Replication with Apache Kafka and Confluent.
Cluster Linking (Hands On).