Kafka has become a key data infrastructure technology, and we all have at least a vague sense that it is a messaging system, but what else is it? How can an overgrown message bus be getting this much buzz? Well, because Kafka is merely the center of a rich streaming data platform that invites detailed exploration.
In this talk, we’ll look at the entire streaming platform provided by Apache Kafka and the Confluent community components. Starting with a lonely key-value pair, we’ll build up topics, partitioning, replication, and low-level Producer and Consumer APIs. We’ll group consumers into elastically scalable, fault-tolerant application clusters, then layer on more sophisticated stream processing APIs like Kafka Streams and ksqlDB. We’ll help teams collaborate around data formats with schema management. We’ll integrate with legacy systems without writing custom code. By the time we’re done, the open-source project we thought was Big Data’s answer to message queues will have become an enterprise-grade streaming platform, all in 45 minutes.
Resources
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☁️Confluent Cloud
Fully Managed Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Connectors. Use promo code 60DEVADV to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage. Be sure to activate it by Dec. 31, 2021, and to use it within 90 days after activation. Any unused promo value on the expiration date will be forfeited and there are a limited number of codes available, so don’t miss out!
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✍️ Streaming data from Oracle into Kafka
Blog about the options for getting data from Oracle into Kafka
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🎥 Integrating Oracle and Kafka
A conference talk covering the options for getting data from Oracle into Kafka
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📚Free eBooks
Free eBooks to download , including Kafka: The Definitive Guide.
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ℹ️ Confluent Developer
Tutorials, videos, blogs, podcasts, and more - all for developers working with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform
- 🎥 Kafka Connect tutorials on YouTube
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🧩 Confluent Hub
Huge list of connectors for Kafka Connect
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✍️ Blog - Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
A fun blog showing what you can do with ksqlDB and Kafka
- 💬 Confluent Community Slack group
- 📌 Apache Kafka and ksqlDB in Action: Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!
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📌 Introduction to ksqlDB
Learn all about ksqlDB in this 45 minute talk & live demo
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📌From Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect
Learn all about Kafka Connect (including the connectors available with ksqlDB)
- 📌The Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers
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🚂On Track with Apache Kafka: Building a Streaming Platform solution with Rail Data
Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in Action! Using live streams of rail movement data in all sorts of useful ways for analysis and applications.