Confluent Training is a structured, industry-focused program designed to help learners master Apache Kafka and the Confluent ecosystem used for real-time data streaming. This course takes you from core Kafka concepts to advanced Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud implementation, making it suitable for both beginners and working professionals.
The training combines conceptual learning with hands-on practice to help you build, manage, and monitor scalable event-driven architectures. By working on real-world streaming scenarios, learners gain practical experience in designing reliable data pipelines and operating Kafka-based systems in production environments.
Prerequisites
- Programming basics
- Linux/Unix command line
- Basic networking concepts
- Distributed systems fundamentals
Who Should Enroll
- Data engineers and architects
- Software developers
- Big data and streaming professionals
- Cloud and DevOps engineers
- Beginners starting a career in data streaming
What You Will Learn
- Apache Kafka fundamentals and event streaming concepts
- Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud architecture
- Kafka topics, partitions, brokers, producers, and consumers
- Building and managing data pipelines
- Kafka Connect for source and sink integrations
- Schema Registry and data serialization techniques
- Stream processing using ksqlDB
- Monitoring, scaling, and performance tuning Kafka clusters
- Security concepts, including authentication, authorization, and encryption
- Deploying and operating Kafka applications in production environments
