A step-by-step guide to learn the basics of Kafka - Understanding Partitions, Consumer Group, ZooKeeper and Message Flow

What you'll learn
You will learn how Kafka works
You will learn how to setup project for Kafka
You will learn how to download Kafka
You will learn how to create a Consumer
You will learn how to create a Producer
You will learn how to create a Controller
You will learn how to execute Kafka application using Zookeeper and Kafka Server
You will learn how message flows in Kafka

Requirements
You should have an IDE (Eclipse, Intellij, etc) for coding
You should know the basics of Java Programming
Execution will be easier if have Postman tool installed
Knowledge of Spring Boot is a Plus

Description
This course is an upskilling opportunity for anyone who want to learn Apache Kafka and apply it in real time. If you are a beginner and new to Kafka, this course will be very useful to you. It is a detailed course and covers the fundamentals of Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed, event streaming platform. It combines messaging, storage, and stream processing, to allow storage and analysis, of both historical and real time data. It's biggest advantage is: it allows multiple independent applications, reading from data streams, to work independently, at their own rate. Hence, making the overall processing fast and scalable. You all must be aware that Kafka is being used widely now-a-days, and have multiple job opportunities. This course is going to be very helpful for anyone seeking opportunities in the same. Throughout this course, you will learn how a message flows from a message queue and subscribers listen to those messages from the topics.Pros:Scalability and High performanceMultiple producers and consumersHigh availability and fault toleranceSecurity and FlexibilityMulti-language environmentKafka Connect for simple integrationEasy to understand documentation, guides, and learning resourcesIn this series, we will discuss following topics in a detail : How Kafka Works?Project SetupDownload KafkaCreate ProjectListenerProducerControllerProject Execution