Apache Kafka Complete Course for Beginners

This beginner-friendly crash course kicks off with Kafka’s “what and why,” dives into its scalable performance model, and compares it to other message brokers. Then you’ll spin up a Python project, launch Kafka with Docker Compose, and write producers and consumers for a hands-on demo that mirrors a real-world use case.

Along the way you get a DevOps Roadmap PDF, a free month of PyCharm Pro (thanks JetBrains!), plus links to the GitLab repo and official docs. Timestamps guide you from setup to end-to-end testing and graceful shutdown, so you can follow step by step without missing a beat.

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