Apache Kafka Tutorial - Complete Crash Course for Beginners [2025]

Master Apache Kafka in this complete 2025 crash course! Learn everything from basics to advanced concepts including producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and real-world use cases.

🔥 What You'll Learn:
Kafka architecture and core concepts
Setting up Kafka locally
Producers and Consumers
Topics, Partitions, and Replication
Real-world use cases (Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn)
Best practices and common mistakes

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
2:54 Problem Statement
8:37 How Kafka can solve that
19:00 All about Apache Kafka and it's components
38:03 Setup Apache Kafka with KRaft Mode with Docker
44:57 Creating Project with Kafka



🎯 Perfect for:
Software Engineers learning distributed systems
Backend developers
DevOps engineers
System design interview prep

📚 Resources:
https://github.com/Nikhilthadani

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