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Kafka Learning Roadmap

Distributed event streaming — from topics and partitions to exactly-once semantics.

Estimated time:4–6 weeks

1🌱

Phase 1 — Fundamentals

Topics, partitions, offsets

Producers & consumers

Consumer groups & rebalancing

Brokers & cluster basics

2🛡️

Replication & ISR (in-sync replicas)

Acks & delivery guarantees

Retention & compaction policies

Idempotent & transactional producers

3📈

Partitioning strategy for throughput

Consumer lag monitoring

Producer batching & compression

4🔥

important

Rolling broker upgrades

Exactly-once semantics tradeoffs

Kafka Connect for integrations

Schema Registry & compatibility

Begin with interview questions to assess your current level.