The Complete Apache Kafka Practical Guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Let's get connected! Join the Learning Community

Chapter 2: Apache Kafka Installation Overview

Lecture 1: Apache Kafka Installation Overview

Lecture 2: Installing Apache Kafka on the Mac and Unix-like systems

Lecture 3: Installing Apache Kafka on the Mac

Lecture 4: Installing Ubuntu on MacOS using VirtualBox

Chapter 3: Installing Apache Kafka on the remote Ubuntu server

Lecture 1: SECTION 2 Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating remote Ubuntu Virtual Private Server

Lecture 3: Installing Apache Kafka on Virtual Private Server

Chapter 4: Installing Apache Kafka on Windows

Lecture 1: SECTION 3 Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing Apache Kafka on Windows

Lecture 3: Starting Zookeeper and Kafka server on Windows

Lecture 4: Installing Ubuntu on Windows using VirtualBox

Lecture 5: Installing Apache Kafka on Ubuntu using GUI

Chapter 5: Starting Apache Zookeeper and Kafka Broker

Lecture 1: SECTION 4 Introduction

Lecture 2: Observing contents of the Kafka folder

Lecture 3: Reading and editing Kafka files using VisualStudio Code

Lecture 4: Trying to start Kafka Server

Lecture 5: Observing Kafka Server logs

Lecture 6: Starting Zookeeper

Lecture 7: Starting Kafka Server while Zookeeper is up and running

Lecture 8: Observing logs folder and current kafka server setup

Chapter 6: Creating and exploring Kafka Topic

Lecture 1: SECTION 5 Introduction

Lecture 2: How to connect to Kafka cluster

Lecture 3: Create new Kafka topic

Lecture 4: What happened after creation of the new topic

Lecture 5: Read details about topic

Chapter 7: Producing and consuming Messages

Lecture 1: SECTION 6 Introduction

Lecture 2: Send some messages using Kafka Console Producer

Lecture 3: Consuming messages using Kafka Console Consumer

Lecture 4: Consuming messages from the beginning

Lecture 5: Running multiple consumers

Lecture 6: Running multiple producers

Lecture 7: What was changed in the Kafka logs

Chapter 8: What is Apache Kafka and how it works

Lecture 1: SECTION 7 Introduction

Lecture 2: What is Apache Kafka

Lecture 3: Broker

Lecture 4: Broker cluster

Lecture 5: Zookeeper

Lecture 6: Zookeeper ensemble

Lecture 7: Multiple Kafka clusters

Lecture 8: Default ports of Zookeeper and Broker

Lecture 9: Kafka Topic

Lecture 10: Message structure

Lecture 11: Topics and Partitions

Lecture 12: Spreading messages across partitions

Lecture 13: Partition Leader and Followers

Lecture 14: Controller and it's responsibilities

Lecture 15: How Producers write messages to the topic

Lecture 16: How Consumers read messages from the topic

Chapter 9: GitHub Repository and Diagrams for the course

Lecture 1: SECTION 8 Introduction

Lecture 2: GitHub repository and list of basic Kafka commands

Lecture 3: Diagrams for the course

Chapter 10: EXAMPLE 1 – Topic with Multiple Partitions

Lecture 1: SECTION 9 Introduction

Lecture 2: If you use remote Kafka brokers

Lecture 3: Cleaning up existing kafka installation

Lecture 4: Creating topic with multiple partitions

Lecture 5: How messages were spread across different partitions

Lecture 6: Reading messages from specific partition

Lecture 7: Reading messages from specific offset in specific partition

Lecture 8: Reading details about topic and __consumer_offsets topic

Lecture 9: Summary for multiple partitions example

Chapter 11: EXAMPLE 2 – Kafka Cluster with Multiple Brokers

Lecture 1: SECTION 10 Introduction

Lecture 2: Example overview – run multiple brokers

Lecture 3: Creating separate configuration files for brokers

Lecture 4: Launching three brokers

Lecture 5: Getting cluster information and broker details from Zookeeper

Lecture 6: Creating multiple-partition topic in the Kafka cluster

Lecture 7: Looking at logs folders of every broker

Lecture 8: Producing and consuming messages in the cluster

Lecture 9: Details about topic in the cluster

Lecture 10: Simulating broker failure in the cluster

Lecture 11: Summary for broker cluster and topic without replication

Chapter 12: EXAMPLE 3 – Multiple Brokers and Topic with Replication

Lecture 1: SECTION 11 Introduction

Lecture 2: Preparing for the next example with replication

Lecture 3: Launching brokers and creating topic with replication

Lecture 4: Observing logs folder and details of the topic

Lecture 5: Producing and consuming messages in the topic with replication

Lecture 6: Observing how messages were stored in the partitions on different brokers

Lecture 7: Bringing down one of three brokers and observing changes

Lecture 8: Bringing down another broker in the cluster

Lecture 9: Bringing back both brokers

Lecture 10: Summary for replication

Chapter 13: EXAMPLE 4 – Kafka Consumer Groups

Lecture 1: SECTION 12 Introduction

Lecture 2: Example with consumer groups overview

Lecture 3: Exploring default consumer groups

Lecture 4: Starting consumer in the custom consumer group

Lecture 5: Starting second consumer in the same consumer group