Learn Apache Kafka, the backbone of real-time data pipelines.

Apache Kafka is the standard tool for moving real-time data between systems at scale, and it shows up often in data engineering and backend job postings. This course introduces Kafka's core concepts: topics, producers, and consumers.

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What you'll learn

Explain what Kafka is and why companies use it for streaming data
Understand topics, producers, and consumers
Set up a basic Kafka producer and consumer
Describe common Kafka use cases in an interview

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