Lesson 1 - Introduction to Apache Kafka
- What Kafka is and why it was created
- The Kafka Architecture
- The main components of Kafka
- Some of the use cases for Kafka
Lesson 2 - Kafka Command Line
- The contents of Kafka's /bin directory
- How to start and stop Kafka
- How to create new topics
- How to use Kafka command line tools to produce and consume messages
Lesson 3 - Kafka Producer Java API
- The Kafka producer client
- Some of the KafkaProducer configuration settings and what they do
- How to create a Kafka producer using the Java API and send messages both synchronously and asynchronously
Lesson 4 - Kafka Consumer Java API
- The Kafka consumer client
- Some of the KafkaConsumer configuration settings and what they do
- How to create a Kafka consumer using the Java API
Lesson 5 - Kafka Connect and Spark Streaming
- Kafka Connect and how to use a pre-built connector
- Some of the components of Kafka Connect
- How to use Kafka and Spark Streaming together
