Apache Kafka Crash Course for Java and Python Developers

A fast track for Python or Java developers to gain valuable skills using Apache Kafka

What you'll learn
Kafka Basics: Key Architecture Components and Data Flow
Kafka Admin Client API (Java in Spring for Kafka and Python kafka-python)
Kafka Producer Client API (Java in Spring for Kafka and Python kafka-python)
Kafka Consumer Client API (Java in Spring for Kafka and Python kafka-python)
Schema Registry (Java in Spring for Kafka and Python kafka-python)
Kafka Connect for Data Pipelining into and out of Kafka
Stream Processing with Overview of Common Tech Used with Kafka

Requirements
Basic understanding of Docker along with comfortability using the CLI and familiarity with either Java or Python programming languages.

Description
In this course students, Java or Python Software Developers, will be taken on a fast track journey to attaining skills required to harness the amazing power for Apache Kafka. Students gain the practical knowledge to build loosely coupled distributed systems that scale to insane levels of throughput while maintaining unprecedented resiliency.

Topics covered include

Kafka Basics of Key Architecture Components and Data Flow

Kafka Admin API (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

Kafka Producer API (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

Kafka Consumer API(In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

Confluent Schema Registry (In Java with Spring for Kafka as well as in Python)

Kafka Connect to Import and Export Data to/from Kafka from Common Source/Sink Systems

Stream Processing Basics with Overview of Relevant Technologies used with Kafka

The Apache Kafka Crash Course for Java and Python Developers is specifically designed for quickly getting Developers up to speed using Apache Kafka to be prepared for upcoming interviews or make timely yet significant contributions implementing Apache Kafka pub/sub messaging or event streaming in their current roles. The course provides a balance of fundamental theory on the inner workings of Apache Kafka's storage mechanism along with the know how to tune producer and consumer applications for performance and resiliency. This course is packed full of practical examples with code samples for putting the theoretical content into practice in two of the most popular languages used in industry, Java and Python.

Who this course is for
Software Developers and Software Architects with experience programming in Java or Python interested in using Kafka for building robust, scalable, decoupled systems.