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Kafka and event streaming · Intermediate · 6 h

Producers, topics and consumers

Topics, partitions, keys, producers, consumer groups and offsets, with a local broker.

Why employers care: Event-driven systems are how modern companies connect services and feed real-time analytics.

In the roadmaps for: Data Engineer, Software Engineer (Backend)

Lessons, in order

  1. Producers, consumers and partitions on a real brokerStream one hour of New York taxi trips through Kafka, keyed by pickup zone, and count them with a consumer group.4 min

Next shelf: Delivery guarantees and failure handling