Kafka 101

30 Minutes

7 learning resources

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Learn about the fundamentals of Apache Kafka. This tutorial covers basic concepts of Kafka and its components.

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What is Apache Kafka?

Learn how Kafka streams enable applications.

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What are topics?

Explore topics, messages, and consumer processing.

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What are partitions?

Learn how partitions work within messages and topics.

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What are messages?

Learn about key/value pairs and how messages are positioned.

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What are producers?

Define who publishes messages and a custom partitioning strategy.

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What are consumers?

Identify who receives messages and what they can do with them.

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Kafka ecosystem

Learn more about Kafka's other tools for developers.

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