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.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

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