This course provides a detailed overview of Apache Kafka, covering key concepts such as topics, partitions, brokers, clusters, producers, consumers, and consumer groups. By the end of the course, learners will understand how Kafka works, how to use it in their system architecture, and how to achieve scalable throughput and high availability. The course teaches about message ordering, delivery acknowledgements, transactions, and exact once delivery. The intended audience for this tutorial includes architects and system designers looking to incorporate Kafka into their designs.
Overview
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
Taught by
Chris Hay
