Apache Kafka Training Course

Who should attend

This course is aimed at sysadmins and Software Developers who need to set up Kafka for the first time.

Prerequisites

Some of experience of working with Command Line and Linux would be useful, and any exposure to programming in a language such as Java, Python or C# would be highly beneficial.

On-site Kafka Training?

Please let us know if you are interested in having Kafka training delivered at your offices - we can take into account your current tech stack, and the experience level of your team, and deliver a custom course which focuses on your business needs.

Introduction to Kafka

• Overview of Kafka Architecture
• Key terms
• Obtaining and installing Kafka

What is a distributed streaming platform?

• Publishing and subscribing to Streams
• Storing Streams
• Processing

Brokers, Consumers, Producers, and the Zookeeper

• Understanding Brokers, Consumers and Producers
• When do I use Zookeeper?
• Tracking consumed offsets
• Load Balancing

Topics, partitions, and the Kafka log

• Fault tolerance - Replication, Failover and Parallel Processing
• Ordering and Cardinality
• Leaders & Followers

Message Delivery Semantics

• At most once
• At least once
• Exactly once

Connectors and Kafka Connect

• Connector model
• Worker model
• Data model
• Data pipelines management
• Log and metric collection, processing, and aggregation
• ETL for data warehousing

Streams Processors

• Prcoessor API
• Defining a Stream Processor
• State Stores
  • Defining and creating a State Store
  • Fault-tolerant State Stores
  • Manage Fault Tolerance of State Stores (Store Changelogs)
  • Custom State Stores
• Connecting Processors and State Stores

Basic administration and configuration of a cluster

• Setting up Kafka and Zookeeper on AWS
• Starting up and shutting down brokers
• Performance Optimisations