Kafka as a Platform - The Ecosystem from the Ground Up

Learn about the entire streaming platform provided by Apache Kafka and the Confluent community components. Starting from basic key-value pairs, progress to topics, partitioning, replication, and low-level Producer and Consumer APIs. Discover how to build elastically scalable, fault-tolerant application clusters, utilize stream processing APIs like Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, manage data formats with schema management, and integrate with legacy systems seamlessly. This course is designed for individuals interested in understanding Kafka as a rich streaming data platform.