Learn about Apache Kafka and its ecosystem in 20 minutes.

What is Apache Kafka?

Learn how Kafka works, get a strong understanding of the different components

Kafka Fundamentals

Learn how to use Kafka Command Line Interface (CLI)

How to interact with Kafka programmatically?

Series of advanced tutorials on important Kafka administration subjects

When a Kafka Consumer reads from the partition leader it can increase latency and networking costs.

Reding from the Closest Replica reduces latency and can save on networking costs.

From Apache Kafka v2.4+ consumers can now read from the closest replica

Learn how Apache Kafka v2.4+ now offers ability to read from closest replica in order to reduce latency and minimise networking costs.

Kafka Consumer Read from Closest Replica 