Mastering Apache Kafka

1.Introduction to Apache Kafka
1.1.What is Apache Kafka?
1.2.Importance of Kafka
1.3.Kafka Use Cases
1.4.Kafka Architecture Overview
2.Kafka Fundamentals
2.1.Topics, Partitions, and Brokers
2.2.Producers and Consumers
2.3.Message Structure
2.4.Kafka APIs
3.Installing and Configuring Kafka
3.1.Downloading Kafka
3.2.Setting Up Kafka Cluster
3.3.Configuration Files
3.4.Important Parameters
4.Kafka Producer Deep Dive
4.1.Producer Configuration
4.2.Synchronous and Asynchronous Producers
4.3.Message Serialization
4.4.Message Partitioning
5.Kafka Consumer Deep Dive
5.1.Consumer Groups and Parallelism
5.2.Consumer Offsets and Commit Strategies
5.3.Handling Message Processing Errors
5.4.Rebalancing and Consumer Lag
6.Advanced Producer and Consumer Concepts
6.1.Custom Producers: Idempotent, Transactional, and Exactly Once Semantics
6.2.Consumer Seek and Assign
6.3.Offset Management
7.Kafka Streams
7.1.Introduction to Kafka Streams
7.2.Building Stream Processing Applications
7.3.Stateful and Stateless Operations
7.4.Windowing and Time Handling
8.Kafka Connect
8.1.Overview of Kafka Connect
8.2.Source and Sink Connectors
8.3.Configuring Connectors
8.4.Building Custom Connectors
9.Monitoring and Operations
9.1.Kafka Monitoring Tools
9.2.Metrics and Log Monitoring
9.3.Managing Kafka Clusters
9.4.Troubleshooting Issues
10.Security and Authentication
10.1.Kafka Security Overview
10.2.SSL/TLS Encryption
10.3.SASL Authentication
10.4.Authorization and ACLs
11.Appendix
11.1.Resources and References
11.2.Additional Reading Material
11.3.Online Kafka Communities
11.4.Useful Tools and Libraries
11.5.Glossary of Kafka Terms
11.6.About the author