Training: Apache Kafka – Fundamentals

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Description

Apache Kafka was built with the vision to become the central nervous system that makes real-time data available to all the applications that need to use it, with numerous use cases like stock trading and fraud detection, to transportation, data integration, and real-time analytics.

This course provides an overview of what Kafka is, what it’s used for, and the core concepts that enable it to power a highly scalable, available and resilient real-time event streaming platform. The series begins with an introduction to the shift toward real-time data streaming, and continues all the way through to best practices for developing applications with Apache Kafka, how to integrate Kafka into your environment and the use of Confluent Platform.

Participant profiles

Professionals who work with a real-time event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka
Students attending Apache Kafka
Administration by Confluent and/or the Confluent Skills for Building Apache Kafka

Objectives

Gain understanding of the Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform
Explore use cases
Receive an overview of Kafka’s core concepts that enable it to power a highly scalable, highly available and resilient real-time event streaming platform
Be introduced to the Confluent Platform, offering an enterprise-ready, real-time event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka
Begin preparation to attend Apache Kafka Administration by Confluent and/or the Confluent Skills for Building

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of the Linux OS
Experience in using a shell like Bash is beneficial

Course content

Module 1: Motivation and Customer Use Cases

Motivation for a paradigm change to “Event-driven”
How Kafka is the backbone of real-time event streaming
How other major players in the market use Kafka
Customer Use Cases
Microservices, IoT and Edge Computing
Core Banking, payments engine and fraud detection
Cyber Data Collection and Dissemination
ESB Replacement
Data Pipelining
eCommerce and Customer 360
Mainframe offloading

Module 2: Apache Kafka Fundamentals

Architecture
ZooKeeper’s role
Topics, Partitions and Segments
The commit log and streams
Brokers and Broker replication
Producers Basics
Consumers, Consumer groups and Offsets

Module 3: How Kafka Works

High-level code overview for a basic producer and a basic consumer
High Availability through Replication
Data Retention Policies
Producer Design and Producer Guarantees
Delivery Guarantees, including Exactly Once Semantic
Partition strategies
Consumer group rebalances
Compacted Topics
Troubleshooting strategies
Security overview

Module 4: Integrating Kafka into your Environment

Get streams of data into and out of Kafka with Kafka Connect and REST Proxy
Maintain data formats and ensure compatibility with Schema Registry and Avro
Build real-time streaming applications with Confluent KSQL & Kafka Streams

Module 5: The Confluent Platform

The Streaming Platform as the Central Nervous System
Deployment Models — on premise versus SaaS
The Confluent Control Center
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
The Confluent CLI
Confluent Operator
The Confluent Hub for Certified Connecto

Documentation

Course material included.

Lab / Exercises

Launching and exploring a minimal Kafka cluster
Using Kafka command line tools to explore cluster meta data in ZooKeeper, create topics on the cluster, and publish & consume messages
Running a Java based consumer and observe consumer lag when scaling the consumer
Configuring Kafka Connect with a MQTT Connector source to create a data pipeline
Using Confluent Control Center to monitor your cluster and execute KSQL queries

Exam

This course prepares you to the Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka. If you wish to take this exam, please contact our secretariat who will let you know the cost of the exam and will take care of all the necessary administrative procedures for you

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Temptraining funding

ITTA is a partner of Temptraining, the continuing education fund for temporary workers. This training fund can subsidize continuing education for anyone who works for an employer subject to the Collective Work Agreement (CCT) Rental of services.