What you'll learn

Learn how Kafka producers and consumers work together to move data reliably. In this course, Produce and Consume Data in Kafka, you’ll gain the ability to confidently produce, consume, and troubleshoot data streams in Apache Kafka. First, you’ll explore how Kafka producers publish data to topics, including how producers interact with partitions and brokers, configure acknowledgements, and optimize performance. Next, you’ll discover how Kafka consumers read and process data and manage consumer groups, offsets, and rebalancing. Then, you'll find out how to choose between automatic and manual offset commits for different reliability needs. Finally, you’ll learn how to create and configure producer and consumer workloads, monitor delivery semantics, and troubleshoot common issues. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Kafka producer–consumer operations needed to build, monitor, and maintain robust, low-latency data pipelines that scale reliably in production environments.