Foundations: Why Kafka & Event-Driven Thinking

• Getting Started With Real-Time Systems
• Introduction To Apache Kafka
• The Problem Before Kafka
• The distributed commit log explained
• Events as facts, not commands
• Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs ActiveMQ
• Kafka vs databases, ETL and traditional queues
• The Passport Lifecycle domain

Kafka Architecture & Core Concepts

• Anatomy Of Kafka Topic

Kafka Development Environment Setup

Kafka Administration From The Command Line