Mastering Kafka: A Comprehensive Cheat Sheet and Tips for Interview Success

<p>Certainly! Here&#39;s a concise Kafka cheat sheet that covers the essential concepts and commands:</p> <p>Kafka Cheat Sheet:</p> <p>1. Kafka Basics:<br /> - Apache Kafka: A distributed streaming platform.<br /> - Topics: Streams of records that Kafka organizes data into.<br /> - Partitions: Divisions of a topic for scalability and parallelism.<br /> - Producers: Applications that write data to Kafka topics.<br /> - Consumers: Applications that read data from Kafka topics.<br /> - Brokers: Kafka server instances that store and replicate messages.</p> <p>2. Kafka Command Line Tools:<br /> - Create a topic:<br /> ```<br /> kafka-topics.sh --create --topic &lt;topic_name&gt; --bootstrap-server &lt;bootstrap_servers&gt; --partitions &lt;num_partitions&gt; --replication-factor &lt;replication_factor&gt;<br /> ```<br /> - List topics:<br /> ```<br /> kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server &lt;bootstrap_servers&gt;<br /> ```<br /> - Produce messages:<br /> ```<br /> kafka-console-producer.sh --topic &lt;topic_name&gt; --bootstrap-server &lt;bootstrap_servers&gt;<br /> ```<br /> - Consume messages:<br /> ```<br /> kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic &lt;topic_name&gt; --bootstrap-server &lt;bootstrap_servers&gt; [--from-beginning]<br /> ```</p> <p>3. Kafka Configuration:<br /> - server.properties: The main Kafka configuration file.<br /> - zookeeper.connect: ZooKeeper connection string.<br /> - listeners: Network listeners for Kafka.<br /> - log.dirs: Directory where Kafka stores log data.<br /> - num.partitions: Default number of partitions for new topics.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@shubhamkumbhar787/mastering-kafka-a-comprehensive-cheat-sheet-and-tips-for-interview-success-4efb7923a76c">Website</a></p>