Kafka Crash Course – Hands-On Project

Get ready to deep-dive into Apache Kafka! This tutorial kicks off with a quick conceptual rundown—what Kafka is, why it exists, and how it outperforms other message brokers—then guides you step-by-step through building a simple Python app that publishes and consumes messages using Kafka running in Docker Compose.

Along the way you’ll snag handy resources (GitLab repo, official docs), brush up on prerequisites like Python and Docker basics, and follow clear timestamps for each stage—from setting up PyCharm and your project structure to writing producers/consumers and testing the full data flow.

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