Working with Apache Kafka

Course Description

Apache Kafka is a real-time data pipeline processor. It¡s scalable, fault tolerance, has high execution speeds with fluid integrations are some of the key hallmarks that make Kafka an integral part of many Enterprise Data architectures. In this lab intensive two day course, you will learn how to use Kafka to build streaming solutions.

Highlights

Join an engaging hands-on learning environment, where you¡ll explore:

Overview of Streaming technologies
Kafka concepts and architecture
Programming using Kafka API
Kafka Streams
Monitoring Kafka
Tuning/Troubleshooting Kafka

This course has a 50% hands-on labs to 50% lecture ratio with engaging instruction, demos, group discussions, labs, and project work.

Target Audience

Experienced Java Developers with database experience.

Course Outline

Introduction to Streaming Systems

Fast data
Streaming architecture
Lambda architecture
Message queues
Streaming processors

Introduction to Kafka

Architecture
Comparing Kafka with other queue systems (JMS / MQ)
Kaka concepts : Messages, Topics, Partitions, Brokers, Producers, and commit logs
Kafka and Zookeeper
Producing messages
Consuming messages (Consumers and Consumer Groups)
Message retention
Scaling Kafka

Programming With Kafka

Configuration parameters
Producer API (Sending messages to Kafka)
Consumer API (consuming messages from Kafka)
Commits, Offsets, Seeking
Schema with Avro

Kafka Streams

Streams overview and architecture
Streams use cases and comparison with other platforms
Learning Kafka Streaming concepts (KStream, KTable, and KStore)
KStreaming operations (transformations, filters, joins, and aggregations)

Administering Kafka

Hardware/Software requirements
Deploying Kafka
Configuration of brokers/topics/partitions/producers/consumers
Security: How secure Kafka cluster, and secure client communications (SASL and Kerberos)
Monitoring: monitoring tools
Capacity Planning: estimating usage and demand
Trouble shooting: failure scenarios and recovery

Monitoring and Instrumenting Kafka

Monitoring Kafka
Instrumenting with Metrics library
Instrument Kafka applications and monitor their performance

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should:

Be comfortable with Java
Have experience working with databases
Able to navigate the Linux command line
Have basic knowledge of Linux editors (such as VI/nano) for editing code

Single Course Price:
$1,895

Length: 2 Day

Delivery Method: Virtual Classroom

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