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

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

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.

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 KZfaq. Thank you.

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!

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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🧔‍♂👋🎩

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Straightforward explanation in six minutes, thank you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Simple clear and concise. Thank you James

Very well done man, simplified demonstration

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a perfect video explaining the core concepts of Kafka

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

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

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

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

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

One of the best explanation of KAFKA to understand simply

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

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

loved it ! simply explained , to the point .Thankyou

James very simple and easy to understand

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

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

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

Truly Exceptional ! Thanks for making this.

Awesome video. Simple and super clear!!

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

Really concise overview of Kafka. Thank you.

Straightforward and intuitive video. Thx!!!

Thank you for explaining this with an example! 😊

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

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

you explained it so nicely and in a simple way.

Great intro to the fundamentals! Great use of example too

So greatly explained! Really helpful.

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

great video. your animations really supported what you said.

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

Great introductory video! Thanks!

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?

Best explanation under 7 minutes!!

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

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

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

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

Love the brevity of the video !

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

Amazing "nutshell" intro to kafka. thanks.

extremely helpful! Thanks James!

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

Looking for more content like this. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the succinct introduction!

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

Its crazy how good this video is

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

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

This is an amazing recap! Thanks

the most clear explanation of kafka I ve seen

This video was amazing. New subscriber!

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

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.

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

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

Wonderful video !! Thank you for detailed info

The concepts are explained briefly but clearly. You have done in 6 minutes what most other "gurus" on yt are not able to do in 30 minutes. They go on talking and talking without really being able to hit the keys, probably because they don't themselves understand it.

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

Great video. Thank you for the clear explanation. This is very similar to RabbitMQ. How does it compare?

100% Perfect introduction to Kafka

Sir, this video is just awesome !!

@James - great video. Thank you!

Wow.. thanks for the clear explanation ❤

James, thank you so much for this video. I love Basketball too and so it particularly appealed to me.

that was an amazing sum up!

Simple, clear and concise.