Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v3

UPDATE AUGUST 2025: The Kafka Setup videos have been updated with Kafka 4.0!

UPDATE MARCH 2022: Course newly recorded with Kafka 3.0!

Welcome to the Apache Kafka Series! Join a community of 130,000+ students learning Kafka.

Apache Kafka has become the leading distributed data streaming enterprise big data technology. Kafka is used in production by over 33% of the Fortune 500 companies such as Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Walmart and LinkedIn.

To learn Kafka easily, step-by-step, you have come to the right place! No prior Kafka knowledge is required

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If you look at the documentation, you can see that Apache Kafka is not easy to learn...

Thanks to my several years of experience in Kafka and Big Data, I wanted to make learning Kafka accessible to everyone.

We'll take a step-by-step approach to learn all the fundamentals of Apache Kafka.
At the end of this course, you'll be productive and you'll know the following:

• The Apache Kafka Ecosystem Architecture

• The Kafka Core Concepts: Topics, Partitions, Brokers, Replicas, Producers, Consumers, and more!

• Launch your own Kafka cluster in no time using native Kafka binaries – Windows / MacOS X / Linux 

• Learn and Practice using the Kafka Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Code Producer and Consumers using the Java API 

• Real world project using Wikimedia as a source of data for a producer and OpenSearch as a sink for our consumer

• Overview of Advanced APIs (Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams)

• Real World Case Studies and Big  Use cases

• Overview of Advanced Kafka for Administrators

• Advanced Topic Configurations

Note: The hands-on section is based on Java, which is the native Kafka programming language. But, good news! Your learning in Java will be completely applicable to other programming languages, such as Python, C#, Node.js or Scala, and Big Data frameworks such as Spark, NiFi or Akka

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The Kafka for Beginners course is the best place to start your Kafka learning journey... Ask other students!

• 5 stars: "That's one of the most high-quality on-line courses I ever took" – Paul L.

• 5 stars: "This training was awesome and learned many things about KAFKA though having 0 years of experience in this technology" – Puneet G.

• 5 stars: "Outstanding on all fronts! I wish all courses were that well presented. I especially appreciate the hands-on sections. I was able to get everything up and running with ease. Highly recommend this course and this instructor!" – David G.   

You can take this course risk-free and if you don't like it, you can get a refund anytime in the first 30 days!

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Instructor

My name is Stéphane Maarek, I am passionate about Data Streaming & Cloud Computing, and I will be your instructor in this course. I teach about Apache Kafka, the Kafka ecosystem, and Kafka Certifications, focusing on helping my students improve their professional proficiencies. I am also the co-founder of Conduktor: an enterprise Apache Kafka platform & UI to help everyone use Kafka.

I have already taught 3,000,000+ students and gotten 1,000,000+ reviews throughout my career in designing and delivering best-selling courses!

With Apache Kafka becoming much more than a buzzword out there, I've decided it's time for students to learn how to be Kafka professionals properly. So, let’s kick start the course! You are in good hands!

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This Course Also Comes With:

• Lifetime Access to All Future Updates

• A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section

• Links to interesting articles, and lots of good code to base your next applications onto

• Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download

This is the course that could improve your career!

Apache Kafka is a skill in high demand and there are not enough people to fulfill all the open positions. You can boost your income, take on new roles and fun challenges. Many of my students are now the Kafka experts of their companies! You can be the next!

I hope to see you inside the course!

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Note: Looking for more advanced Kafka concepts? There are many volumes in the Apache Kafka Series:

• Learn Kafka for Beginners v3 (great to start)

• Kafka Connect Hands On Learning

• Kafka Streams for Data Processing

• KSQL on ksqlDB - Hands On!

• Kafka Cluster Setup & Administration

• Confluent Schema Registry & Kafka REST Proxy

• Kafka Security (SSL SASL ACL)

• Kafka Monitoring and Operations

Happy learning!