Confluent Developer Skills for Building Apache Kafka®

• Write code to connect to a Kafka cluster
• Distinguish between leaders & followers & work with replicas
• Explain what a segment is & explore retention
• Use the CLI to work with topics, producers, & consumers

• Describe the work a producer performs, & the core components needed to produce messages
• Create producers & specify configuration properties
• Explain how to configure producers to know that Kafka receives messages
• Delve into how batching works & explore batching configurations
• Explore reacting to failed delivery & tuning producers with timeouts
• Use the APIs for Java, C#/.NET, or Python to create a Producer

• Create & manage consumers & their property files
• Illustrate how consumer groups & partitions provide scalability & fault tolerance
• Explore managing consumer offsets
• Tune fetch requests
• Explain how consumer groups are managed & their benefits
• Compare & contrast group management strategies & when you might use each
• Use the API for Java, C#/.NET, or Python to create a Consumer

• Create & manage consumers & their property files
• Illustrate how consumer groups & partitions provide scalability & fault tolerance
• Explore managing consumer offsets
• Tune fetch requests
• Explain how consumer groups are managed & their benefits
• Compare & contrast group management strategies & when you might use each
• Use the API for Java, C#/.NET, or Python to create a Consumer

• Describe Kafka schemas & how they work
• Write an Avro compatible schema & explore using Protobuf & JSON schemas
• Write schemas that can evolve
• Write & read messages using schema-enabled Kafka client applications
• Using Avro, the API for Java, C#/.NET, or Python, write a schema-enabled producer or consumer that leverages the Confluent Schema Registry

• Develop an appreciation for what streaming applications can do for you back on the job
• Describe Kafka Streams & explore steams properties & topologies
• Compare & contrast steams & tables, & relate events in streams to records/messages in topics
• Write an application with the help of the Streams DSL (Domain-Specific Language)

• Describe how Kafka Streams & ksqlDB relate
• Explore the ksqlDB CLI
• Use ksqlDB to filter & transform data
• Compare & contrast types of ksqlDB queries
• Leverage ksqlDB to perform time-based stream operations
• Write a ksqlDB query that relates data between two streams or a stream & a table

• List some of the components of Kafka Connect & describe how they relate
• Set configurations for components of Kafka Connect
• Describe connect integration & how data flows between applications & Kafka
• Explore some use cases where Kafka Connect makes development efficient
• Use Kafka Connect in conjunction with other tools to process data in motion in the most efficient way
• Create a Connector & import data from a database to a Kafka cluster

• Delve into how compaction affects consumer offsets
• Explore how consumers work with offsets in scenarios outside of normal processing behaviour & understand how
• to manipulate offsets to deal with anomalies
• Evaluate decisions about consumer & partition counts & how they relate
• Address decisions that arise from default key-based partitioning & consider alternative partitioning strategies
• Configure producers to deliver messages without duplicates & with ordering guarantees
• List ways to manage large message sizes
• Describe how to work with messages in transactions & how Kafka enables transactions

• Compare & contrast error handling options with Kafka Connect, including the dead letter queue
• Distinguish between various categories of testing
• List considerations for stress & load test a Kafka system

A: Confluent Platform is a full-scale data streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, & manage data as continuous, real-time streams.

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