The Complete Apache Kafka Practical Guide (Udemy.com)

I found this course very good, as it has helped me in understanding most of the concepts which were asked in the interviews that I have given recently. Had I take this course few months earlier then I would have surely passed those interviews. Please add a section on Kraft mode since now zookeeper is getting deprecated in Kafka 4.x.

It matches my expectation to understand what kafka is and how it works. I like the ways that author makes some mistakes then tries to explain what is the root cause and fixes it. Some contents are outdated but still valuable.

I would definitely rate this course a 5 star for being the only Kafka course with Node.js hands on(atleast among the ones I have searched). But wait that is not the only reason. This is a very beginner friendly course. Bogdon explains concepts as if explaining things to a kid. He teaches us how to read log files and edit config files as per our needs. He repeats things so that we get accustomed to the process. He shares us the necessary documentation needed. And to add a cherry on top, Bogdon has created a discord channel where we can post queries and get it answered from Bogdon or fellow members. Recommendation to Bogdon - Please create an intermediate course for Kafka where we send data with key-value pairs and other advanced Kafka features.

I am beginner in Kafka and course was helpful for me. I learnt how to install Kafka and basic commands. I worked on Windows, so I had to rewrite teacher's commands for it. I would appreciate if I had windows command from beginning, but I learnt bonus at least. As the course went on, it become to repetitive. It was still about start zookeeper, start brokers and consumer. For begginers like me the course is very good.

I learned a lot and now I have the big picture and how Apache kafka works and the practical experience I needed to start my own projects; I had some challenges too since when the course was recorded there's been some updates on the 'Apache kafka' side of things but when stuck I asked in the Q&A and Bogdan has been 'high available' and very helpful.

I was able to watch this course in three hours. It is repetitive, bit in a good way, because it highlighted kafka conceptually in a very clear manner. I now hope the creator makes another course exploring more the "keys" capability in kafka applying consistent hashing to it in a "real" world scenario.

Curso bastante completo, explorando os conceitos e repleto de práticas para aplicá-los. Achei a metodologia bastante interessante: inicialmente, mergulhamos nas aplicações e, uma vez familiarizados, passamos a ver os conceitos de forma mais profunda. Não conhecia nada de Kafka e saio com uma grande ferramenta nas mãos.

Reasonably well covered for a beginners course. Pretty easy to follow and builds up knowledge nicely across a few different languages. I would like to see some additions like creating topics streams and tables without the console version included, but perhaps that would make this an intermediate course. Overall quite happy.

This is a very good hands-on Kafka course for beginners. It won't make you an expert, but it certainly helps a lot if you are trying to wrap your head around Kafka concepts. I recommend fellow learners to follow along and perform all actions themselves. I had some issues with the Java consumer application. It seemed to behave in a bit of different way on my system than on Bogdan's when restarting the consumer Java applications. Not sure what the issue was.

I thought this was an excellent Kafka course. I like how the course flowed, getting your feet wet with some hands on examples before explanation of how everything works. I really liked that most lectures are less than 10 minutes. A couple of gotchas, I was using an AWS EC2 instance for my brokers, when I got to the Java section and started running producers and consumers from my local windows machine it was not working until I set the broker server property "advertised.listeners" to my EC2 IP. Bogdan does mention this in an earlier lecture but forgot by the time we got to the Java section where you really need it. Also, in the Python section, the consumer.py did not work until I added "api_version=(0,10)" to the KafkaConsumer constructor. Overall, it is a solid course to learn and understand how Kafka works with some good examples using different language API's. I would recommend it.