The lecture will be a dive into the popular Apache Kafka stream-processing software platform. We will explore the abstractions Kafka provides and the ecosystem that the Confluent platform brings around it.

Nice to have

The demo in the lecture would be done using the Apache Kafka Java client, so basic Java experience is required.

What will you learn

• How to setup a local Kafka cluster that is scalable, robust and quick

• How to build applications that can publish and subscribe to data

• How to make a Kafka cluster in completely decoupled systems

• What is the role of Kafka in the modern data distribution pipeline

• Which are the core Kafka architectural concepts and components

• Which are the Kafka developer APIs
  
  

Agenda

19:00 h: Registration

19:15 h: Introduction

What is Kafka

Use Cases

Kafka Fundamentals

• Records

• Producers & Consumers

• Topics & Partitions

• Offsets

• Partitioning

• Consumer Groups

• Delivery Guarantees

• Cool Features

• Clients

Demo

20:30 h: Grab a drink, have a bite and network

Speakers

Vasil Nonchev - Software Development Lead - Java at MentorMate

Deniz Hashimov - Senior Java Developer at MentorMate

How to get here: https://goo.gl/uQAXDe

Looking forward to meeting you!