This crash course walks you through Apache Kafka from the ground up—covering what Kafka is, why it was created (and how it compares to other message brokers), plus how it achieves scalable performance. You’ll then dive into a hands-on Python project using Docker Compose: spinning up Kafka, writing a producer and consumer, testing the data flow, and gracefully shutting everything down.
Along the way you get all the goodies: a GitLab repo with sample code, links to the official docs, plus prerequisite tutorials on Python, Docker and Docker Compose. JetBrains even hooks you up with a free month of PyCharm Pro, and handy timestamps make it easy to jump straight to setup, the CLI, or any demo segment.
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