Kafka Crash Course – Hands-On Project
Get ready to see why Apache Kafka is the messaging powerhouse for scalable systems, then roll up your sleeves with a Python + Docker demo. You’ll start with the basics—what Kafka is, why it exists, and how it outperforms other brokers—then jump into a real-world example: setting up a Python project, spinning up Kafka with Docker Compose, writing producers and consumers, poking around the CLI, and testing the full flow.
All the code lives in a public GitLab repo, and you’ll find official docs plus handy pre-req tutorials (Python, Docker, Docker Compose) linked in the description. Timestamps guide you through every step, so you can jump straight to the bits you need—whether it’s the conceptual groundwork at 00:40 or the graceful shutdown at 01:01:05.
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