Processing Data: Getting Started with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a popular event streaming platform used by Fortune 100 companies for both real-time and batch data processing. In this course you will explore the characteristics of event streaming and how Kafka architecture allows for scalable streaming data. Install Kafka and create some topics which are essentially channels of communication between apps and data. Set up and work with multiple topics for durable storage. Create multiple brokers and cluster of nodes to handle messages and store their replicas. Then monitor the settings and logs for those brokers. Finally see how topic partitions and replicas provide redundancy and mAIntAIn high avAIlability.