A comprehensive tutorial series to master kafka for java developers. Follow along step by step.
Follow the tutorials in order for the best learning experience. Each part builds on the previous one.
Master Apache Kafka fundamentals. Learn what Kafka is, its core architecture, messaging patterns, and why it's essential for modern distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Get hands-on with Apache Kafka. Learn to install Kafka, create topics, build your first producer and consumer in Java, and understand message delivery guarantees.
Master advanced Kafka producer techniques. Learn custom partitioning, idempotent producers, transactional writes, performance tuning, and error handling strategies for production systems.
Master advanced Kafka consumer techniques. Learn consumer groups, manual partition assignment, offset management, rebalancing strategies, and parallel processing for scalable applications.
Master Kafka Streams for building real-time stream processing applications. Learn transformations, aggregations, windowing, joins, state stores, and exactly-once processing.
Master Kafka production deployment. Learn error handling, monitoring, security, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and operational best practices for mission-critical systems.