What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is a popular open source platform for streaming, storing, and processing high volumes of data. In this video, we break down how Kafka works and how it’s able to provide you with a reliable, scalable, and highly performant service for managing events. We also touch on some key resources for effectively monitoring your Kafka deployments via Datadog.

Chapters:
00:00- Introduction
00:37- Kafka Architecture
01:23- Kafka Reliability
04:08- Kafka Scalability
05:10- Kafka Performance
05:35- Monitoring Kafka in Production

Introducing Kafka-Kit: Tools for Scaling Kafka:
Lessons learned from running Kafka at Datadog:
Monitoring Kafka performance metrics:

[mahmoudfadaly]

best video illustrating kafka on youtube

[kishorechaganti]

Very clear and concise explanation, thank you!

[sunpav]

Concise explanation with Great animation, Thanks

[gai]

Very and clear and detailed explanation. Thanks!
It would be great if you can come up with Observability over Data Engineering from Datadog's perspective.

[skartikey]

Lovely animation & explanation. Thanks!

[KrishnaDasPC]

Coming from a backend dev django, is kafka a good career path? Any links for roadmap for kafka?