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LifestyleApache Kafka for absolute beginners (Udemy.com)
Start Here - Learn Apache Kafka Ecosystem, Architecture, and Client API Programming in Java
Created by: Prashant Kumar Pandey
Last updated January 2024
What you will learn
- Apache Kafka Ecosystem, Components and Big Picture
- Kafka Architecture and Core Concepts
- Multi-node Confluent Community Kafka
- Kafka Storage Architecture in depth
- Kafka Cluster Architecture in depth
- Kafka Producer API Programming in Java
- Kafka Consumer API Programming in Java
- Idempotence and Transactions in Kafka
- JSON and AVRO Serialization
- Exactly Once Processing in Kafka
How it compares
Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 84% of them
- Reviews8,199#8 of 151 by number of reviews
- Length5.1 hoursshorter than 57% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2024more recently than 55% of them
Course Description
I designed this course for absolute beginners and intermediate Kafka professionals. This course will deliver What? Why? And How? of Apache Kafka and take you deep into Client API programming in Java.
About the Course
I am creating Apache Kafka for absolute beginners course to help you understand the Apache Kafka Stack, the architecture of Kafka components, Kafka Client APIs (Producers and Consumers) and apply that knowledge to create Kafka programs in Java.
Who should take this course?
This course is designed for software engineers, solution architects, and managers willing to implement Kafka and solve real-time stream processing problems. I am also creating this course for data architects and data engineers who are responsible for designing and building the organization’s data-centric infrastructure. Another group of people is the managers and architects who do not directly work with Kafka implementation. Still, they work with the people who implement Kafka Streams at the ground level.
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
8,199 Reviews
Prashant Kumar Pandey
Prashant Kumar Pandey has spent over 25 years in IT as a developer, architect, consultant, trainer, and mentor, working with international software services organisations on data-centric, Big Data, and AI projects. That production experience — not just theory — is what shapes how he teaches Databricks, Spark, and cloud data engineering today.
He is the founder, lead author, and chief editor of ScholarNest, a skill-development platform offering courses, training, and technical articles since 2018. He also publishes free training content on his YouTube channel, Learning Journal, and writes for a following of 43,000+ data engineering professionals on LinkedIn.
Prashant is a firm believer in lifelong, continuous learning. Alongside his course work, he authors technical books and articles to help IT professionals and students close the gap between the skills they have and the skills the industry actually needs — the same gap this course is built to close.
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Reviews
By Guruputra K M on 4/7/2026
Amazing explanation, after a long time I am seeing great teacher for real technical problem.
By Jyothi Shivaramu on 3/19/2026
Extremely well-structured and detailed. Perfect for anyone who wants to master Kafka from the ground up.
By Saileela A on 2/16/2026
It is a good introduction to Apache Kafka. It needs to be updated though! The instructions are based on Zookeeper, which has been removed, and a version of Kafka from years back.
By ADITYA CHAKRABORTY on 1/8/2026
Great course. The theoretical examples and code walkthorughs are excellent. Glad to have explored this course after completing a longer course. I found this to be of superior quality. Hope the same instructor creates additional courses (such as on Kafka connect).
By Vanessa MacDougal on 1/5/2026
It is a good introduction to Apache Kafka. It needs to be updated though! The instructions are based on Zookeeper, which has been removed, and a version of Kafka from years back.
By Florian von Wulffen on 12/22/2025
So far, it is exactly what I need. It is very structured and very well illustrated.
By Jegadeeswaran Pandidurai on 12/8/2025
I have worked for real time kafka topic for consuming messages in project, this learning helps to recall them, thanks
By Lau Chi Wah on 12/1/2025
Straight to the point, the best Kafka beginner course. However, it would be even better if the course content could be updated — for example, Kafka no longer requires ZooKeeper these days.
By Anonymized User on 11/2/2025
I liked the visual diagrams, wish some of these on hand are also provided for Mac and confluent.cloud.io instead of local which is more apt for enterprises and use cases.
By David Cruz Garcia on 10/7/2025
the course is great! the are many topics to learning.
By Raghavendra H S on 11/21/2020
Excellent course for beginner to learn about Kafka with real-time examples.
By Chitta Mohanty on 11/21/2020
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- Provider: Udemy
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