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

Introduction To Real-Time Data

Getting Started With Kafka