Building Kafka Solutions with Confluent

• A general understanding of Apache Kafka
• Java programming experience

Audience

• Developers
• Architects
• System Administrators

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Confluent (a distribution of Kafka) to build and manage a real-time data processing platform for their applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Confluent Platform.
• Use Confluent's management tools and services to run Kafka more easily.
• Store and process incoming stream data.
• Optimize and manage Kafka clusters.
• Secure data streams.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This course is based on the open source version of Confluent: Confluent Open Source.
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Running Apache Kafka at scale with Confluent.

Setting up Confluent

Overview of Confluent Features and Architecture

Building a Streaming Platform

The Publish and Subscribe Process

How Kafka Stores Data

Processing Data On-the-Fly

Case Study: Twitter Analytics

Implementing Kafka's APIs

• Producer, Consumer, Streams, and Connect

Building Applications on Top of Kafka

Monitoring Kafka

Administration Tools

Case Study: Netflix Movie Recommendations

Adding New Systems

Detecting Problems with Message Delivery

Enterprise Security

Disaster Recovery

Developer Features

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion