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Getting Started with Apache Kafka

4 Courses
13 Hours
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Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed streaming platform for high-throughput, fault-tolerant handling of real-time data feeds. This learning path is intended to help data and business intelligence professionals gain the knowledge necessary about Kafka to start using it in real-world situations.

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Getting Started with Apache Kafka

Watch the following content to get started with Apache Kafka.

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Getting Started with Apache Kafka

  • by Axel Sirota
  • 4h 47m
  • Sep 19, 2023
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Securing a Kafka Cluster

  • by Bogdan Sucaciu
  • 2h 21m
  • Dec 14, 2020
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Designing Event-driven Applications Using Apache Kafka Ecosystem

  • by Bogdan Sucaciu
  • 2h 27m
  • Jul 12, 2019
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Kafka: Build, Deploy, and Monitor Your First Real-world Application

  • by Justin Pihony
  • 3h 46m
  • Apr 01, 2019
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Axel Sirota
Axel Sirota
Axel Sirota is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with a deep interest in Deep Learning and Machine Learning Operations. He has a Masters degree in Mathematics and after researching in Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning optimisation, he works as an AI and Cloud Consultant as well as being an Author and Instructor at Pluralsight, Develop Intelligence, and O'Reilly Media.
Bogdan Sucaciu
Bogdan Sucaciu
Software Engineer by day, Pluralsight author by night, Bogdan likes to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and teach about them. His favorite talking subjects are streaming data, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud technologies. He has several years of experience “cooking” software with JVM based languages, some flavors of web technologies, and garnishing with automated testing. He holds a BS in Robotics where he spent countless hours programming microcontrollers an...
Justin Pihony
Justin Pihony
Justin is a software journeyman, continuously learning and honing his skills. Most of his early professional career was spent in C# and MSSQL, but he loves learning about many different languages, especially Scala. This passion for Scala led him to join the Lightbend (formerly Typesafe) team, diving even deeper into the Scala ecosphere. And, as much as he loves to learn, he also loves to spread his knowledge through teaching and helping others. He is a very active answerer on StackOverflow...

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