Confluent Fundamentals Accreditation - Apache Kafka

I would like to strongly recomend the Confluent Fundamentals for Apache Kafka® course and Confluent Fundamentals Accreditation certification for anyone interested learning more about the Apache Kafka project.

Training and exam certification are free.

Course Objectives

• Gain an understanding of Apache Kafka® and the Confluent Platform
• Explore use cases
• Receive an overview of Kafka’s core concepts that enable it to power a highly scalable, highly available and resilient real-time event streaming platform
• Be introduced to the Confluent Platform, offering an enterprise-ready, real-time event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka®
• Begin preparation to attend Apache Kafka® Administration by Confluent and/or the Confluent Developer Skills for Building Apache Kafka® training courses.

Content

• Motivation and Customer Use Cases
  • Motivation for a paradigm change to “Event-driven”
  • How Kafka is the backbone of real-time event streaming
  • How other major players in the market use Kafka
  • Customer Use Cases
    • Microservices, IoT and Edge Computing
    • Core Banking, payments engine and fraud detection
    • Cyber Data Collection and Dissemination
    • ESB Replacement
    • Data Pipelining
    • eCommerce and Customer 360
    • Mainframe offloading
• Apache Kafka® Fundamentals
  • Architecture
  • ZooKeeper’s role
  • Topics, Partitions and Segments
  • The commit log and streams
  • Brokers and Broker replication
  • Producers Basics
  • Consumers, Consumer groups and Offsets
• How Kafka Works
  • High-level code overview for a basic producer and a basic consumer
  • High Availability through Replication
  • Data Retention Policies
  • Producer Design and Producer Guarantees
  • Delivery Guarantees, including Exactly Once Semantic
  • Partition strategies
  • Consumer group rebalances
  • Compacted Topics
  • Troubleshooting strategies
  • Security overview
• Integrating Kafka into your Environment
  • Get streams of data into and out of Kafka with Kafka Connect and REST Proxy
  • Maintain data formats and ensure compatibility with Schema Registry and Avro
  • Build real-time streaming applications with Confluent ksqlDB & Kafka Streams
• The Confluent Platform
  • The Streaming Platform as the Central Nervous System
  • Deployment Models — on premise versus SaaS
  • The Confluent Control Center
  • Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • The Confluent CLI
  • Confluent Operator
  • The Confluent Hub for Certified Connectors

Free certification

At the end of the course, you can earn a badge by passing a final exam.