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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Curricula     Enterprise Database Systems Solution Area     Big Data     Apache Kafka
What makes Apache Kafka so powerful and fault-tolerant is its clustering capabilities. In this course, you will learn how to create and manage clusters in Kafka.

Objectives

Clusters

  • start the course
  • describe the availability and durability guarantees of Apache Kafka
  • set up and configure a multi-broker cluster
  • configure and balance logs and leadership for replication
  • describe how log compaction works
  • configure and use the log cleaner

Advanced Clusters

  • increase the replication factor for a topic
  • add servers to a Kafka cluster and migrate data to the new servers
  • mirror data between clusters such as between two data centers
  • balance replicas across zones or racks |w to prevent rack-failure data loss
  • set preferred replicas for leadership and handle unclean leader elections