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Apache Kafka Specialization

Master Apache Kafka for your Big Data Solutions. Through this course, gain expertise in the essential concepts of Apache Kafka, including the architecture of Kafka, deploying and managing clusters, configuring producers and consumers, stream processing, ensuring data reliability, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and implementing best practices for scalability and performance.

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.1

(11 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months
at 3 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Learn Big data concepts and Apache Kafka to build scalable data pipelines.

  • Utilize Kafka's fault-tolerant architecture by exploring the schema registry, Kafka Streams, and connectors.

  • Understand the importance of Kafka monitoring, including setting up dashboards, understanding metrics, and ensuring security.

  • Learn integration of Kafka with Apache Storm, Spark, and Flume for comprehensive data solutions.

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Specialization - 4 course series

Kafka Fundamentals

Course 14 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand data evolution, the significance of big data, analytics applications, and messaging systems.

  • Learn Kafka's key features, components, architecture, and industry use cases.

  • How to Set up Kafka environments and install Zookeeper and Kafka

  • Learn Kafka producer and consumer basics, configurations, and operations. Work with serializers and deserializers, and manage offsets.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Deserialization
Category: Serialization
Category: Serializer
Category: Apache Zookeeper
Category: Apache Kafka

What you'll learn

  • How to analyze Kafka internals and operations.

  • Learn techniques for performance tuning in Kafka.

  • Explore the configuration of reliable producer and consumer settings.

  • Understanding Kafka cluster architecture and administration, including MirrorMaker and dynamic configuration changes.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Server Monitoring
Category: Client Monitoring
Category: Infrastructure Monitoring
Category: Memory Management

What you'll learn

  • Monitor metrics for Kafka brokers, producers, and consumers.

  • Manage quotas and monitor consumer lag effectively.

  • Gain insight into Kafka Streams including tasks, threading models, and local state stores.

  • Perform operations involving K-Streams and K-Tables, leveraging their functionalities.

Skills you'll gain

Category: HTTP rest interface
Category: Kafta Monitoring
Category: Kafka Schema Registry
Category: K-table
Category: Kafta broker metrics

What you'll learn

  • Understanding Apache Storm's architecture and topology analysis.

  • Integrating Kafka Spouts into Apache Storm topologies.

  • Exploring Apache Spark's components, functions, and practical applications.

  • Developing Spark applications with Kafka integration, including RDD and session operations, and configuring Flume connectors for Kafka to HDFS.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Apache Flume
Category: Spark Streaming
Category: Apache Storm
Category: Kafka security

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