Foundations

Apache Kafka Architecture (Brokers, Topics, Partitions & Replication)

Kafka Producers (Messages, Keys, Batching, Compression, Retries and Idempotence)

Kafka Consumers (Consumer Groups, Offsets, Rebalancing and Delivery Guarantees)

Designing Kafka Topics and Partitions (Scalability, Ordering and Throughput Trade-offs)

Building Event-Driven Microservices with Kafka (Real-World Architecture Patterns)