Apache Kafka in 6 minutes

A quick introduction to how Apache Kafka works and differs from other messaging systems using an example application. In this video I explain partitioning, consumer offsets, replication and many other concepts found in Kafka.
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[@moveonvillain1080]

Idk how many videos I went over but not a single one would say that partition in Kafka is JUST A QUEUE. They would unnecessarily make it complicated with more technical jargon. Thank You good Sir🧔‍♂👋🎩

[@renatoiwashima3890]

Finally a tutorial using examples instead of abstract concepts. Thanks!

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[@SaurabhP-gm3bt]

James, this is a great video. It goes to enough technical details and a perfect first video on Kafka. It should have a million views, really. Please keep posting and sharing your knowledge. Thank you.

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[@python2448]

You are right 👍

[@georgelza]

Would love to see more Kafka subjects communicated this way, awesome to give to a team to get basic concepts down.

[@ravisemwal5363]

This is exactly how an introduction to a tool should be made. Thanks James, liked and subscribed! I've seen a lot of these videos about user organisations and purpose, but not the exact problem they solved using this.

[@bstancel12]

Wow! You created a great video - informative and concise. It gives enough technical details, but not too many in a short amount of time. Rarely do you see technical videos this well made on KZbin. Thank you.

[@zhengqingpei7136]

I love how you don't just jump into the current implementation, but rather, goes through the thought process of starting out with single server setup, addressing issues, and then leading up to how Kafka handles it. Nice video. The videos help, the explanations are crystal clear and detailed too.

[@giorgi23]

What an explanation. In 6 minutes so many details and so clear. This requires real talent

[@swarupdas5147]

Hours of Kafka technology within 6 mins. And that too crystal clear. Hats off.

[@chrise202]

What on earth was that? The most useful introduction I encountered to watch. Not only it addresses a lot of technical Q&As but also does it in a visual, perceptive and intuitive manner!

[@vinayreddy1103]

This 6 minutes made my day! What a crisp explanation. No bullshit straight and on point.

[@coolplayer2512]

Very Helpful, explained in a very cleaned way. Thanks James for sharing this.

[@pankajpundir3410]

Hours of knowledge, juiced up in 6 minutes. Amazing video

[@dhruva1221]

extremely helpful to cover the base terms & workflow!!! brilliant piece! :D Thanks James

[@asawari520]

I was so struggling to understand why Kafka and this is it! to the point and crisp clear explanation . Thankyou !

[@surbhiagarwal2322]

This is the best video hands down! I can see why Kafka is widely preferred because it's amazing distributed and fault tolerant architecture

[@ImranChaudhry]

Straightforward explanation in six minutes, thank you.

[@SamirJahchan]

It was very well presented, in a simple and effective way. This put me on the page about Kafka technology.

[@Sunshine-sv6lw]

Only a person who has deep knowledge on a subject can explain anything with clarity in a short video. Looking forward to more videos from you!

[@jayeshborgaonkar9166]

Hands down the best video introduction to understanding kafka in 6 mins, liked and subscribed

[@user-uw4ib6jt3m]

Thank you for the detailed example with the matches and the visualization, it really helps to understand the topic intuitively. Keep it up, James!

[@alimomeni4777]

James, really liked this tutorial! Concise with fantastic illustrations. Bravo

[@essskkk]

One of the best video to learn about Kafka basics … Simple and very clear , Thanks a lot

[@TheDQR]

Excellent video, great explanation and visual representation. Amazing job!

[@pratikshapanwar1552]

Please make more such videos. Your content is good. Thank you for bringing this. The video is to the point.

[@zacharyohare2118]

This is THE way to teach concepts as an introduction... I know because I already have questions about limitations and applications, and I'm thinking of a lot of other services that use something similar or actually are using K somewhere underneath; services I didn't REALLY understand, and now make much more sense. Thank you.

[@mosalman5174]

Simple clear and concise. Thank you James

[@shanemay-gunlogson9575]

Best intro to Kafka video I've seen. Thank you.

[@shlomokon]

What a great video! Perfect balance between an illustrating example and technical depth. Easy to follow along. I tried another video before, with which started out talking about "source systems" and "target systems", never explaining what they mean by those, without any illustrating example, and that video lost me right away. In contrast, yours easily made sense from the first second and was easy to follow along as you kept adding depth incrementally.

[@contactsrividya]

Wow this is a great video ! I am about to take couple of virtual onsite interviews for data engineer role and looking for a short video to explain Kafa.. This is the best video !! Thanks

[@prakharlondhe3876]

Simple, clear and concise.. That's how teaching should be.. Kudos!

[@fieryscorpion]

It started off clear, but got very confusing after half way.

[@27sosite73]

@@fieryscorpion same feeling but it seems like I am too stupid for now to understand the second part. this might be the reason

[@sephyshen2510]

Great video. Although I never use Kafka before, it is very clear for me to understand the its mechanism under the hood. Thank you.

[@ravitejapenki]

Very well done man, simplified demonstration

[@suvamgupta2914]

Your way of explanation is Outstanding!! Thanks and keep the good work flowing

[@travelchimps6637]

Amazing example, great graphics and very neat explanation. Thank u for the video!

[@itgurukul]

One of the best explanation of KAFKA to understand simply

[@shibu9389]

Awesome video! Great intro with just the right amount of information.

[@RamakrishnanParameswaran]

This is the fantastic video I ever watched on Kafka understanding.

[@rajaramarumugam3878]

Excellent Video, in just 6 mins you have covered core concepts of the Apache kafka.

[@sriramakrishnabattu3408]

This is a perfect video explaining the core concepts of Kafka

[@Shruti_starlight]

Watched many videos on Kafka but this is what i was looking for. Thanks for the simple yet effective tutorial for beginners. Loved it.

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Shruti

[@deepusun]

James very simple and easy to understand

[@nenapse7750]

Really very simple, and complete, description of Kafka. Thx!. Subscribed

[@rittikaghatak7318]

Thanks, James... Please post more videos. Precise and clear

[@rajeevmahajan9227]

This is the best explanation I have found on internet on the topic many thanks :)

[@prathibavijayasekaran4173]

Best and easy summary on Kafka. Pls keep posting useful videos like this.

[@yogeshkurane123]

❤ Wohoooooo! Simplicity at its peak. Thanks for explaining Kafka in a simplistic way.

[@1921Designs]

Thorough Notes Apache Kafka is a solution to the problems faced by the distribution and scaling of messaging systems. Kafka is used to design a system that listens to various basketball game updates from various sources and displays the game's status on various channels such as mobile devices and computer browsers. In the architecture, a process called a producer reads these updates and writes them in a queue. Downstream processes called consumers consume these updates to display them on the various channels. As the system expands to follow more games, the servers struggle to handle the load due to the queue being hosted on one server which is running out of memory and processing capacity. To add more computing power, the architecture needs to be distributed. However, distributing a queue data structure can lead to consuming updates in the wrong order, resulting in inconsistencies. Kafka allows the application to specify the way to distribute the items in the queue. In the example, items are distributed using the match name, ensuring that updates from the same match are on the same queue, maintaining an ordering per basketball match. Each queue in Kafka is called a partition, and the total number of partitions is called a partition count. Each server holding one or more of these partitions is called a broker. Each item in a partition is called a record. The field used to decide which partition the record should be stored in is called the partition key. If no key is specified, Kafka assigns a random partition. A grouping of partitions handling the same type of data is called a topic. Each record in a topic is identified by a partition number and an offset. Kafka allows for parallelizing consumer applications, with one consumer per partition guaranteeing ordering per game. Consumers can live on one machine or distributed amongst multiple ones. Consumers in Kafka are lightweight and many can be created without affecting performance. Kafka only needs to maintain the latest offsets read by each consumer. Consumers belonging to the same consumer group do not share partitions, meaning each consumer reads different records from the other consumers. Kafka provides various policies that allow it to do a record cleanup. For example, using a retention policy, you can provide a record age limit after which the records are automatically deleted. Kafka stores records in a fault-tolerant and durable way. Each record is stored on persistent storage so that if a broker goes down, it can recover when it comes back up. Kafka replicates partitions so that when a broker goes down, a backup partition takes over and processing can resume. This replication is configured using a replication factor.

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Excellent explanation! I just felt frustrated for not finding a Kafka course on your list!

[@dishaponkiya1836]

the basic terms explained very very well.. Thank you.

[@BryanChance]

Really concise overview of Kafka. Thank you.

[@jayjaayjaaay94]

the most clear explanation of kafka I ve seen

[@arona2211]

AGREE,

[@creaturerohit]

loved it ! simply explained , to the point .Thankyou

[@sachinnaik4849]

Awesome video. Simple and super clear!!

[@amrutnandedkar2840]

Truly Exceptional ! Thanks for making this.

[@bikashkarmokar]

Best kafka intro so far. great video. thanks a lot

[@saurabhsharma6209]

As Einstein said - 'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.' Perfect explaination for a beginner. Thanks much.

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[@Vinod_Kumar827]

You just nailed it very well. Thanks for the great explanation. Indeed, it was useful for me :)

[@glui2001]

Straightforward and intuitive video. Thx!!!

[@deepakrai5175]

you explained it so nicely and in a simple way.

[@pranavbhat92]

Thank you for explaining this with an example! 😊

[@mandeepbhogal7502]

Clear explanation in 6 minutes...this is the best video to understand how Kafka works and what it solves...thanks...Can you also make a video comparing Kafka with JMS queues?

[@abhinavtripathi970]

I loved this video....nice presentation..........super simple to understand

[@alishiram]

Great introductory video! Thanks!

[@kshow666]

Great intro to the fundamentals! Great use of example too

[@rameshsoundarrajan3831]

What a fantastic video... Made very very simple. 4:25 was little tough to understand. all others were made very very simple and easy to understand. You are amazing

[@nagasai6668]

Great explanation Sir 🙏from India 🇮🇳..will follow your classes from now❤

[@ketanjoshi4568]

Love the brevity of the video !

[@AvinashThombrethe_leo]

So greatly explained! Really helpful.

[@HarpreetSingh-xr6em]

Great and very good summary of Kaffka in small amount of time

[@mikahoy]

view a lot of videos about kafka, and you 're video is the best one

[@DeepakSingh-ji3zo]

Best explanation under 7 minutes!!

[@manju4ever222]

Amazing. You just reduced 50 hours of research for me ❤

[@griglog1309]

Its crazy how good this video is

[@yulia0g]

such a great video with great explanations and examples. learned a lot!! thanks!!!!

[@user-nx1jc7wq8n]

Looking for more content like this. Thanks!

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Really amazing video, I've subscribed without thinking about it.

[@pepper856]

extremely helpful! Thanks James!

[@GeorgeZoto]

Very well designed and created content, thank you for sharing :)

[@franziskakuesters1091]

great video. your animations really supported what you said.

[@A.n.a.n.d.]

Amazing "nutshell" intro to kafka. thanks.

[@NikhilThota-ry5pn]

100% Perfect introduction to Kafka

[@smoideen]

Thank you so much for the this video. The diagrams really helped me understand this better.

[@brothermalcolm]

this is way better than the other kafka in 5mins video on youtube

[@Raadha_Ji]

James what a Content with everything ..Thanks !! keep uploading

[@udit2114]

Amazing video man, very helpful !! Thanks for this .

[@vitalyv301]

Thanks a lot for the succinct introduction!

[@thegodfatheram]

Thank you sir very simple and informative explanation

[@shimesami]

This is an amazing recap! Thanks

[@jamesgrant5088]

Simple, clear and concise.

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[@sammiethompson1672]

Thank you so much this was perfect explanation!

[@insmallportions]

Excellent video, don't know how you did it, but you included all the core concepts in under 7 minutes. Great introduction or review for someone like me that is a bit rusty on the topic.

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[@sairavib2865]

Wonderful video !! Thank you for detailed info

[@ashwinmarathe9844]

Very well explained. keep up the good work. Your videos will help a lot.

[@sruthiravi8464]

Wow.. thanks for the clear explanation ❤

[@nguyenthaimoc4485]

it is really easy to get basic things of Apache Kafka Thanks

[@djdrastic1]

Great video this Had a hard time understanding the fundamentals of how it works.

[@vijaygavandar1956]

Thank you so much James. Very well Delivered .....!!!!

[@lsranganath9054]

Wonderful job,... very nice 6 min video...

[@tungle6068]

Sir, this video is just awesome !!