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📡 Apache Kafka and Event Streaming

Build and operate Kafka event-streaming systems with topics, partitions, producers, consumers, delivery semantics, schemas, security, monitoring, scaling, and stream-processing patterns.

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Course roadmap

Pass each module exam to unlock the next module.

Module 1 · Beginner

Event Streaming Concepts and Kafka Architecture

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Module 2 · Beginner

Brokers, Topics, Partitions and Replication

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Module 3 · Beginner

Producers, Batching, Acknowledgements and Idempotence

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Module 4 · Beginner

Consumers, Groups, Offsets and Rebalancing

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Module 5 · Intermediate

Ordering, Delivery Semantics and Duplicate Handling

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Module 6 · Intermediate

Serialization, Schemas and Compatibility

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Module 7 · Intermediate

Keys, Partitioning Strategy and Data Distribution

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Module 8 · Intermediate

Retention, Compaction and Log Storage

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Module 9 · Advanced

Kafka Connect and Integration Patterns

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Module 10 · Advanced

Stream Processing and Kafka Streams Concepts

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Module 11 · Advanced

Transactions and Exactly-Once Concepts

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Module 12 · Advanced

Security: TLS, SASL, ACLs and Secrets

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Module 13 · Advanced

Monitoring Lag, Throughput and Broker Health

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Module 14 · Expert

Capacity Planning, Scaling and Performance Tuning

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Module 15 · Expert

Failure Recovery, Replication and Disaster Planning

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Module 16 · Expert

Event-Driven Architecture and Data Contracts

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Module 17 · Expert

Expert Capstone: Production Event Streaming Platform

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Certification gate

Final course exam

Pass mark: 80%. Time limit: 360 minutes. All module exams must be passed first.

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