Apache Kafka Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to Event-Driven and Distributed Systems

Build a practical understanding of Apache Kafka and the systems around it. This tutorial covers topics, partitions, producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, delivery semantics, replication, cluster architecture, ZooKeeper and KRaft, ordering, keys, serialization, schemas, and event-driven architecture. It also compares Kafka with traditional message queues and leads toward a practical Kafka application.