Deploying a Kafka Cluster

This course teaches you the essentials of Apache Kafka. You'll develop an understanding of its use cases and see how to build applications around it. You'll also learn how to operate Kafka in order to achieve high-availability and fault tolerance.

Apache Kafka is a messaging platform that reportedly is now deployed in more than a third of Fortune 500 companies. In this course, Deploying a Kafka 2 Cluster, you’ll learn foundational knowledge about Apache Kafka. First, you’ll discover how it can be useful in a modern digital platform. Next, you’ll explore Kafka’s core concepts. Finally, you’ll learn how to deploy it in order to achieve fault tolerance. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Apache Kafka needed to work with Kafka deployments and applications built around it.

• Course Overview 1min
• Message Brokers 19mins
• High-level Kafka Architecture 29mins
• Producers and Consumers 27mins
• Fault Tolerance and High Availability 23mins
• Serialization 15mins
• Installing Kafka Manually 15mins
• Ecosystem Extensions 13mins
• Summary 4mins