Apache Kafka Certification Guide

Become an Apache Kafka developer by exploring industry best practices for developing distributed messaging systems using Kafka.
About This Book
* Enhance your skills and learn to successfully implement all Kafka techniques in live projects at work
* Explore tips and tricks using mock tests and practice questions to help you achieve Apache Kafka certification.
* A detailed certification guide that will help you ace the Apache Kafka certification exam with confidence
Who This Book Is For
This book is for big data/IT developers and analytics professionals who want to be a certified Kafka developer. You will also find this book useful if you are a testing professional who is currently involved in queuing and messaging system and want to perform administrative tasks. Some knowledge of Java concepts and any messaging system is recommended.
What You Will Learn
* Understand how in-sync replication and leader election work in Kafka
* Explore Message Buffering and advanced producer configurations
* Read and deserializ messages using Avro deserializer
* Aggregate data using different types of aggregate functions with KSQL
* Understand dynamic configuration changes and unsafe operations
* Know all the available JMX metrics properties for Kafka
* Get Hands-on knowledge on ZooKeeper Quorum and a Kafka Cluster setup
* Discover Configuring and best practices for running Apache Kafka on the cloud
In Detail
Apache Kafka is an open source project which allows you to read, write and store large streams of data. This book is an all-in-one expert guide to gain in-depth knowledge of Apache Kafka thus allowing you to have all the required expertise to crack Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) exam.
This book will be an end-to-end guide developed to provide you both theoretical and practical skills to make you adept in the distributed messaging system. This exam guide is divided into three parts, where the first part will give you a good understanding of Apache Kafka's architecture. It will also show you to develop a production-ready messaging application that can produce and consume messages with Kafka cluster. In the second part, you will explore the Apache ecosystem, wherein you will explore topics like brokers, topics, partitions, and clients. You will get a better understanding of Kafka Core, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, KSQL and many more. Finally, in the third part, will get a hands-on experience of making Kafka production ready. You will not only learn how to develop scalable applications but also learn how to manage, administer and operate Kafka clusters. Later you will be well versed with the best practices and interview set of questions to get yourself well equipped and ready.
By the end of this book, you will learn to implement all Kafka techniques on big data and you will be able to accelerate your career as Kafka developer.