Kafka

Decide whether Kafka is appropriate for a given integration scenario by contrasting event streaming with direct requests and traditional message queues.

Trace a record from a producer through a topic partition to a consumer group, identifying the role of each Kafka component.

Launch a single-node KRaft Kafka environment with Docker and verify that the broker is reachable.

Create and inspect a topic, then exchange test records with Kafka’s command-line producer and consumer.