What Is Kafka? - Kafka Tutorial for Beginners

This beginner tutorial explains how Apache Kafka works as a distributed event-streaming and messaging platform. It covers producers, consumers, brokers, topics, partitions, clusters, replication, scaling, message ordering, delivery acknowledgements, transactions, exactly-once delivery, and high availability across cloud availability zones.

Syllabus

- intro
- apache kafka overview
- producers and consumers
- kafka brokers
- producers sending messages to brokers
- brokers and topics
- topic partitions
- kafka clusters
- apache zookeeper and kakfa clusters
- scaling zookeeper
- topic partitions and fault tolerance leaders and followers
- distributing topics across clusters
- achieving high availability using availability zones and rack awareness
- message ordering within topic partitions
- message delivery acknowledgements, transactions and exact once delivery
- consumers and consumer groups