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Kafka Fundamentals

This course is part of Apache Kafka Specialization

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Beginner level

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5 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

41 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Learn Kafka's key features, components, architecture, and industry use cases.

  • How to Set up Kafka environments and install Zookeeper and Kafka

  • Learn Kafka producer and consumer basics, configurations, and operations. Work with serializers and deserializers, and manage offsets.

  • Understand data evolution, the significance of big data, analytics applications, and messaging systems.

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7 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 7 modules in this course

This module introduces the evolution of data systems, Big Data concepts, analytics, and messaging systems. It builds the foundational understanding required to work with distributed streaming platforms like Kafka.

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4 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module covers Kafka architecture, components, clusters, terminologies, and real-world use cases. It helps you understand how Kafka works as a distributed messaging system.

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7 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module provides hands-on experience with installing Zookeeper and Kafka and setting up single-node and multi-node clusters. It builds practical skills in configuring Kafka environments.

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4 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module explains Kafka producer architecture, configuration options, and message publishing workflows. It focuses on how data is sent into Kafka topics.

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6 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module covers data serialization techniques, custom serializers, Apache Avro, and partitioning concepts. It explains how Kafka efficiently structures and distributes data.

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6 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module introduces consumer architecture, consumer groups, polling mechanisms, and offset basics. It explains how data is read and processed from Kafka topics.

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7 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module focuses on commit strategies, offset management, rebalancing, and custom deserializers. It completes the full Kafka data consumption lifecycle.

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10 videos1 reading1 assignment

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