Kafka for Beginners - Complete Course [2026]
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In this In this video, you'll learn how to connect Kafka to a Spring Boot application from scratch, create a producer and consumer, and understand key concepts: brokers, topics, partitions, and Kafka Listener. We'll explore how Kafka works in a microservice architecture, how it differs from HTTP, and why it's so popular in Java backend development. I'll demonstrate everything hands-on with Docker and Spring Kafka.
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00:00 - Start
00:40 - Kafka theory
06:03 - Kafka topic
10:22 - Setting up a producer project
23:41 - Sending events to Kafka
28:57 - Writing a consumer project
34:30 - Receiving events from Kafka
39:30 - Kafka cluster fault tolerance
41:24 - Topic partitions
46:23 - Practicing with partitions on a project