Kafka Essentials: Quick Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines by Pearson
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Duration: 8h 26m
Skill level: Intermediate
Released: 2/23/2026
Course details
Apache Kafka is a popular message broker providing data flow management between producer application sources and consumer destinations. In this course, experienced consultant Douglas Eadline explores the many essential and practical aspects of using and running the Apache Kafka event streaming platform. Discover the ins and outs of Kafka, including core concepts, operations considerations, streaming weather data, moving Kafka topic data to external storage, image streaming with Kafka Python, data pipelines, and Kafka Connect. Along the way, discover quick tips and best practices on installation, administration, and troubleshooting.
This course was created by Pearson and Douglas Eadline. We are pleased to host this training in our library.
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