Kafka building blocks

This course covers the essential components and concepts behind Apache Kafka® and Redpanda, preparing you for event-driven architectures and real-time data processing. You'll learn how to set up your development environment and explore storage and communication layers, then get hands-on with clusters, topics, partitions, and consumer groups.

You'll also get familiar with Redpanda’s intuitive tools and CLI commands, as well as learn best practices for bootstrapping, testing, and deploying Kafka applications to production.