Kafka Streams for Software Developers

Explore Kafka Streams for real-time data processing. Learn Kafka concepts, CLI tools, complex topologies, and Spring Boot integration to build scalable, resilient applications.

Intermediate

45 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

Explore Kafka Streams for real-time data processing. Learn Kafka concepts, CLI tools, complex topologies, and Spring Boot integration to build scalable, resilient applications.

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This course includes

1 Project

25 Playgrounds

6 Quizzes

This course includes

1 Project

25 Playgrounds

6 Quizzes

Course Overview

Kafka Streams is a Java library designed to develop applications and microservices tailored for real-time data stream processing. Harnessing Kafka’s capabilities, applications constructed using Kafka Streams exhibit exceptional scalability and fault tolerance. This versatile tool finds applications in various scenarios and domains. The course starts with an introduction to Kafka Streams. Next, you will learn important Kafka concepts and gain experience using Kafka CLI tools. Then, you will learn how to bui...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of Apache Kafka concepts and CLI tools application

Hands-on experience building stateless and stateful topologies using Kafka Streams

Working knowledge of error handling in Kafka Streams applications

Familiarity with building Kafka Streams applications using Spring Boot

What You'll Learn

An understanding of Apache Kafka concepts and CLI tools application

Course Content

Kafka Streams Overview

Get familiar with real-time data processing, Kafka Streams architecture, and practical applications.

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Kafka Streams

Kafka Streams Topologies Kafka Streams Hello World Quiz: Basic Kafka Streams Concepts

Building Our Kafka Tool Belt

Discover the logic behind essential Kafka tools, scripts, message handling, and partitioning.

First Steps with Kafka Scripts Consuming and Producing Messages Consuming and Producing Messages with Keys Kafka Topic as a Log Kafka Topic Partitions Kafka Topic Partitions in Practice Consumer Groups The kafka-consumer-groups Command What’s in Our Kafka Tool Belt: A Summary Quiz: Kafka Concepts and Commands

Stateless Processing

Work your way through stateless processing in Kafka Streams with setup, operations, and testing.

Stateless Processing Introduction Setting Up the Project Serialization and Deserialization Filtering Branching Streams Mapping Flat Mapping Merging and Adding a Sink Node Testing Kafka Streams Topologies Quiz: Stateless Processing

Error Handling

Break down the steps to manage error handling in Kafka Streams applications effectively.

Error Handling in Kafka Streams: Overview Deserialization Error Handling Processor Error Handling Quiz: Error Handling

Stateful Processing

Dig into stateful processing, operations, windowing, and interactive queries in Kafka Streams.

Stateful Processing Basic Concepts Kafka Streams Stateful Operations

Windowing: Tumbling and Hopping Windows Windowing: Sliding and Session Windows Interactive Queries Interactive Queries: Remote Queries Quiz: Stateful Processing

Setting up a Streaming Data Pipeline With Kafka

Project

Kafka Streams with Spring Boot

8 Lessons

Investigate integrating Kafka Streams with Spring Boot, including setup, topology, monitoring, and visualization.

Build an Order Processing Kafka Streams Application

Project

Wrap Up

1 Lesson

Build on your knowledge of real-time stream processing and Kafka Streams integration.

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