Kafka Fundamentals Training

Start your event streaming journey with this comprehensive 2-day introduction to Apache Kafka. Learn core concepts, topic design, producers, consumers, consumer groups, and the Kafka CLI — everything you need to build event-driven applications.

Training Details


Duration	2 days (16 hours)
Level	Beginner
Delivery	In-person, Live online, Hybrid
Certification	N/A

Who Is This For?

Developers building event-driven applications
Data engineers setting up real-time data pipelines
System administrators new to event streaming
Anyone new to Apache Kafka and distributed messaging

Learning Outcomes

After completing this training, you’ll be able to:

Understand Kafka architecture and distributed messaging concepts
Create and manage topics with appropriate configurations
Develop producers with partitioning and delivery guarantees
Build consumers with consumer groups and offset management
Use the Kafka CLI and kafkacat for operations
Design basic event-driven architectures with Kafka

Detailed Agenda

Day 1: Architecture and Producers

Module 1: Introduction to Kafka

Event streaming vs traditional messaging
Kafka architecture — brokers, topics, partitions, replicas
KRaft mode and cluster coordination
Hands-on: Set up a Kafka cluster and explore with CLI

Module 2: Topics and Partitions

Topic creation and configuration
Partition strategies and ordering guarantees
Replication factor and in-sync replicas
Hands-on: Create topics and understand partition behavior

Module 3: Producers

Producer API and configuration
Partitioning strategies — round-robin, key-based, custom
Delivery semantics — at-most-once, at-least-once, exactly-once
Batching, compression, and idempotence
Hands-on: Build producers in Java and Python

Day 2: Consumers and Operations

Module 4: Consumers and Consumer Groups

Consumer API and poll loop
Consumer groups and partition assignment
Offset management — auto-commit vs manual commit
Rebalancing and cooperative sticky assignor
Hands-on: Build consumer applications with offset control

Module 5: Topic Design

Naming conventions and organization
Partition count and key selection
Retention policies and compacted topics
Event schema design principles
Hands-on: Design topics for an e-commerce platform

Module 6: Kafka Operations Basics

CLI tools — kafka-topics, kafka-console-producer/consumer
Consumer group management and lag monitoring
Basic monitoring with JMX
Hands-on: Monitor consumer lag and troubleshoot connectivity

What’s Included

Access to hands-on lab environments
Course slides and reference materials
Sample applications and code templates
Post-training email support (30 days)

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