Learning Kafka

Diving into Apache Kafka — everyday learning journey through concepts, challenges, and real-world applications.

Each day unpacks a new learning, building my understanding step by step.

It’s all about that “Data in Motion”. Let’s get started.

Day 4 - Kafka Streams: Hands-on, Architecture & First PR

Hands-on with Kafka Streams on Confluent Cloud, diving into architecture, and opening my first PR to the Apache Kafka repository.

Day 3 - Diving into Apache Kafka Streams Internals

Exploring Kafka Streams and investigating a StreamsConfig issue in Open Source Kafka.

Day 2 - Kafka Brokers, Clusters, and Retention

Learning about Kafka brokers, cluster architecture, leaders and followers, and message retention.

Day 1 - Introduction to Apache Kafka

Introduction to Kafka, pub/sub systems, messages, schemas, topics, producers, and consumers.

Day 0 - The Commitment to Kafka

Kickoff to learning Apache Kafka. Outlining goals, daily actions, and first notes from the book.