Apache Kafka Complete Course for Beginners

Get ready to dive into Kafka with this hands-on tutorial that walks you through everything from understanding why Kafka exists (hello, scalable performance!) to building a real Python app that produces and consumes messages using Docker Compose. Along the way you’ll learn how Kafka stacks up against other message brokers, run brokers locally, play with the CLI, and gracefully shut it all down—timestamps included for easy navigation.

Packed with resources like a GitLab repo, official docs, and prerequisite vids on Python and Docker, this course is truly the only Kafka tutorial you’ll need. Plus, you score a free month of PyCharm Pro thanks to JetBrains, ensuring your dev environment is as slick as your new streaming-data pipeline.

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