Course Content

1. Java Concepts

• Java Objects, Records, Object-oriented programming constructs
• Java Collections
• Java Streams
• Java Multithreading (Producer/Consumer)
• Java Serialization and Deserialization

2. REST Services

• Create REST endpoint using Spring Boot
• Integrate Kafka with Java Rest Endpoint
• Produce messages to Kafka using REST web service

3. Event-Driven Architecture

• Introduction to Event-Driven Architecture
• Kafka to support event-driven architecture (EDA)

4. Kafka Overview

• High-Level Architecture
• Common Use Cases
• Cloudera’s Distribution of Apache Kafka
• Building a Cluster
• Setting Up Kafka Servers
• Building a Kafka Cluster
• Creating a Kafka Cluster with Confluent
• Build single node cluster using Docker

5. Kafka Architecture Basics

• What Is Apache Kafka?
• Kafka from the Command Line
• Publisher/Subscriber Messaging in Kafka
• Kafka Architecture
• Partitions and Replication
• The Life of a Message
• Working with Kafka from the Command Line
• Consuming Kafka Messages with Multiple Consumer Groups

6. Kafka and Java

• The Kafka Java APIs
• Connecting to Kafka Programmatically in Java

7. Kafka Streams

• What Are Streams?
• Kafka Streams Stateless Transformations
• Kafka Streams Aggregations
• Kafka Streams Joins
• Kafka Streams Windowing
• Streams vs. Tables
• Working with Stream Processing in Kafka

8. Advanced Application Design Concepts

• Kafka Configuration
• Topic Design
• Metrics and Monitoring
• Lab: Configuring Kafka Topics
• Lab: Configuring a Kafka Client
• Working with Kafka in Java
• Building a Producer and Consumer in Java

9. Working with the Confluent Kafka REST APIs

• The Confluent REST Proxy
• Producing Messages with REST Proxy
• Consuming Messages with REST Proxy

10. Confluent Schema Registry

• What Is a Confluent Schema Registry?
• Creating an Avro Schema
• Using Schema Registry with a Kafka Producer
• Using Schema Registry With a Kafka Consumer
• Managing Changes to an Avro Schema

11. Kafka Connect

• What Is Kafka Connect?
• Using Kafka Connect

12. Kafka Security

• TLS Encryption
• Client Authentication
• ACL Authorization
• Testing Producers
• Testing Consumers
• Testing Streams Applications

13. Working with Clients

• Monitoring Clients
• Producer Tuning
• Consumer Tuning

14. Confluent KSQL

• What Is KSQL?
• Using KSQL
• Working with KSQL Streams
• Joining Datasets with KSQL