Apache Kafka Architecture

Get Ready For Kafka Job Interview: Consumer Groups, Replication, Batching, Compressing, Log Compaction, ISRs and more

What you'll learn:
Get Ready for Kafka JOB INTERVIEW!
Fully Understand Architecture of Apache Kafka
Embrace Consumer Group Abstraction
How partitions are assigned to a group of consumers?
Understand how data is replicated in cluster
What is Delete Cleanup Policy and how to calculate correct config values?
How Log Compaction can help reduce disk usage?
How to batching of messages together on Producer and Consumer sides?
When is a good idea to use Compression in Kafka?
What role Controller plays in Kafka Cluster?
Deep understanding of Rebalance Protocol
How Static Membership can avoid undesired rebalances?
Incremental Cooperative Rebalance and its benefits over Eager Rebalance

Requirements
General Computer Science Knowledge

Description
Hi there!

You want to prepare to your Kafka Job Interview?
Or just want to know how Kafka works inside?

You are in good company!
My name is Anatolii and I am a Software Developer in the Internet of Things.
Every second we receive tons of data from our sensors and we've chosen Kafka as a backbone of our distributed backend application.

In this course, I am using my practical experience of running Apache Kafka in production and describe in detail the Architecture of Kafka and the motivation behind it.

This course is for you if:

you want to prepare for a Kafka Job Interview questions

you want to make better architectural decisions for your messaging system

more easily debug production issues with Kafka

or just want to know how Kafka is built inside.

We will cover:

Consumer Groups and rebalancing of partitions across Consumers

Replication of data in Kafka for redundancy and recovery

Different options to clean space in Kafka (delete or compact the logs)

Batching and compressing messages

Fault tolerance in Kafka Cluster

Rebalance protocol

Static membership

Incremental Cooperative Rebalance

We will also run Kafka in Docker to investigate Kafka files and their structure.

In this dense course, I've combined information from these primary sources:

The actual Kafka code

Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIP) - internal discussions in the Kafka community that describe the feature before its implementation

and of course, the knowledge I received personally from running Kafka in High Load production

If you want to know how Kafka is built or get prepared for your Kafka Job Interview I am glad to see you on the course!

Who this course is for
You want to prepare to Kafka Job Interview Questions
Interested in how Kafka works
You need to evaluate if Kafka is a good fit for your project
You want to learn design of modern Scalable Distributed Systems