Apache Kafka Explained in 15 Minutes | Message Broker Architecture for Beginners

Learn Apache Kafka from scratch! This complete message broker tutorial covers everything you need to know about Kafka architecture, topics, partitions, consumer groups 🚀 In this Kafka tutorial you'll learn: → Why companies like Netflix, Uber, and LinkedIn use Kafka → Message broker architecture and microservices communication → Kafka topics and how to organize message streams → Partitions for massive scalability and throughput → Consumer groups for parallel message processing → Delivery guarantees: at-most-once, at-least-once, exactly-once → Offset management and fault tolerance Links: GitHub: https://github.com/GermanGerken My LinkedIn (Let’s connect!):   / german-gerken   ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:27 - Modern Web Application Architecture 0:50 - Monolithic vs Microservices 1:48 - The Communication Problem with HTTP 3:55 - What is a Message Broker? 4:21 - Message Broker Benefits 5:25 - Why Kafka Dominates the Market 6:47 - Delivery Guarantees Explained 8:46 - Kafka Clusters and Replication 9:14 - Kafka Topics: Organizing Messages 9:35 - Partitions: The Scalability Engine 10:56 - Consumer Groups for Parallel Processing 12:09 - Offset Management 13:14 - Real-World Use Cases & Summary 📚 RESOURCES: 🔗 kafka-python library: https://kafka-python.readthedocs.io/ 🔗 Apache Kafka documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/