Apache Kafka & Event Streaming

Curated Kafka resources: the distributed log, partitioning, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, and building event-driven data pipelines.

Best resources to learn Apache Kafka & Event Streaming

• Kafka Documentation -- Introduction

  The official introduction explains the log abstraction, partitioning, and consumer groups -- the three concepts everything else is built on. Read this first.

• Confluent: What is Apache Kafka?

  Confluent's accessible introduction to Kafka concepts, use cases, and ecosystem. A good complement to the official docs.

• Confluent: Kafka Tutorials

  Hands-on tutorials for Kafka patterns: producers, consumers, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry. The best practical starting point for the Kafka ecosystem.