Introduction to Apache Kafka by James Ward

Apache Kafka has emerged as a next generation event streaming system to connect our distributed systems through fault tolerant and scalable event-driven architectures. Now open source through Apache, Kafka is being used by numerous large enterprises for a variety of use cases. This session will introduce the basics of Kafka and walk through some code examples that will show how to begin using it

[rohanurkude]

We hardly see someone explaining such a vast topic in such a concise and clear way. Really appreciate all the effort James, Kudos to you :)

[zackmacomber]

I wish Apache's documentation read like he speaks...I have been so confused about the AdminClient API and various Kafka Java libraries and this guy actually defines terms in a clear way...why can't the vendors themselves present their products clearly???

[scorpionkingnaveen]

Wow.. That was a absolutely great intro to Kafka. Thanks for that!

[danuvian]

Good intro to Kafka. Easy to understand and it was explained well. Very good speaker.

[DevidasS]

Really an awesome presentation this one! cant help but keep coming back to this video to go back to the basics of Kafka..

[joakimhansson]

Great stuff. Would recommend repeating questions from the audience though as we can't hear it at all.

[doviche]

Very good introduction. I've bought the book Kafka The Definitive Guide and it's all just so amazing. Guys, drop traditional messaging system brokers and adopt the Kafka way.

[mirmali]

I like James' way of presentation.

[jeffvoight]

If a message gets a guaranteed commit to a leader, is it eventually guaranteed to make it to the quorum? If not, what happens to it?

[earlybird]

Great introduction to Kafka! Provides a great overview.

[WayneTaylor]

Thanks for the talk here. Very informative and great working life example

[jpwx]

When you want a good Kafka talk and the dude has the same damn name as you

[mehdimohammadi]

Awesome , it was very useful introduction I enjoyed that!

[staticage]

Writes straight to disk might be a problem for anyone using virtual servers with attached storage.Latency would be a killer, not to mention the overhead of having multiple nodes, even with pagecache to socket enabled. Other factors also come into play e.g. log compacting etc

[Lucax]

If you watch this on 1.25 times the speed, he and his movements look like a Sim-Character and its animations.

[CarlosEcheverriaOne]

Can we use consumer-groups on top of two Kafka Clusters, which are replicated using MirrorMaker?

If yes, will Kafka warranty the "Exactly One Time Delivery" policy?

[goverdhank]

Excellent talk. By any chance, are thee slides shared somewhere ? Thanks

[IMMLF]

Maybe a bit off-topic question, but how the presentation was made? Is there a tool for creating such presentations?