Open Kafka Trainings
We organize open public Kafka training sessions led by certified Kafka engineers with years of hands-on experience across diverse industries. Our experts bring real-world insights to help you master Kafka efficiently and effectively. Learn Kafka with peers from different industries.
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Kafka For Management
Thur. 14.8., 9:00 – 17:00
Bern, EN, CHF 1’900
Thur. 27.11., 9:00 – 17:00
Bern, EN, CHF 1’900
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Mix of Theory
Find the perfect balance between theory and hands-on practice. Our trainings provide valuable insights and engaging exercises that bring the concepts to life.
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About
Our trainings are designed to teach you Kafka in a way that ensures you gain sustainable, practical knowledge for your everyday work life. Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, you’ll build the confidence to apply what you learn immediately.
To maintain an engaging and interactive learning experience, we conduct trainings only when at least four participants are enrolled.
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Badge of Completion
After the training you’ll be rewarded a badge and a certificate of completion, detailing the things you’ve learned. You can download it, share it and brag with your new skills.
Kafka Training for
Operators
What you’ll learn & experience:
- Basic Operation: Understand topics, consumers, and read/write operations in Kafka.
- Configuration of Topics: Learn how to configure Kafka topics effectively for different use cases.
- Monitoring of Clusters & Applications: Set up monitoring to ensure the health and performance of Kafka clusters and applications.
- Tracking Down Root Causes: Develop skills to diagnose and troubleshoot issues efficiently.
- Schema Registry & Serialization: Work with Schema Registry, schema registration, compatibility, and serialization/deserialization (SerDes).
- Access Control: Implement authentication, authorization, and role-based access control for secure Kafka operations.
- Kubernetes-Based Operations with Kafka Operator: Manage Kafka using Strimzi (currently) and CFK (on demand).
- PKI, Security & User Credentials: Secure Kafka with PKI, encryption, authentication, and credential management.
- Kafka Operator Operation & Monitoring: Deploy and maintain Kafka using Kubernetes operators.
- Intermediate Operational Tasks: Perform updates, restarts, broker placements, cluster scaling, and rebalancing.
- Advanced & Time-Critical Interventions: Tackle high-stakes Kafka incidents—the ultimate challenge.
Core Training Modules
- Kafka Deployment & Configuration Essentials: Get up and running with Kafka confidently.
- Monitoring & Alerting Basics: Learn how to keep your Kafka environment healthy.
- Troubleshooting & Optimization: Solve real-world issues, from common pitfalls to complex performance tuning.
- Interactive Capture-the-Flag (CTF) Challenges: Engage in hands-on exercises, from beginner-friendly tasks to advanced competitive simulations.
- Expert-Guided Sessions: Short presentations between challenges provide insights and solutions to enhance your understanding.
Whether you’re new to Kafka or a seasoned operator, this training adapts to your level, combining structured learning with interactive problem-solving.
Kafka Training for
Developers
What You’ll Learn:
- Kafka Ecosystem & Trends: Understand Kafka’s role in modern architectures and emerging trends in event streaming.
- Kafka Architecture & Components: Learn about brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and best practices for system design.
- Producers, Consumers, and Streams: Design and implement efficient Kafka producers and consumers for real-time data processing.
- Schema Management & Stream Processing: Work with Avro, Protobuf, Kafka Streams, and KSQL for advanced event-driven applications.
- Fault Tolerance, Error Handling & Debugging: Develop strategies for handling failures, ensuring data consistency, and troubleshooting issues.
- Testing Kafka Applications: Implement best practices for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing of Kafka-based systems.
- Kafka DevOps & Monitoring: Learn how to monitor Kafka applications, set up alerting, and ensure smooth operations in production.
- Performance Tuning & Optimization: Fine-tune Kafka configurations to optimize throughput, latency, and scalability.
- Scaling Kafka Applications: Explore strategies for scaling Kafka clusters and applications efficiently.
- Kafka Connect & External Integrations: Use Kafka Connect to integrate Kafka with databases, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
- Real-World Use Cases & Practical Applications: Apply newly acquired knowledge to real-world stream processing scenarios with Kafka Streams.
Kafka Training for
Management
What You’ll Learn:
- Understanding Kafka’s Role in Modern Data Infrastructure: Explore how Kafka enables real-time data streaming, event-driven architectures, and large-scale data integration across industries.
- Core Terminologies & Features: Master essential Kafka concepts, such as topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and brokers, to communicate effectively with Developers, DevOps, and Architects.
- Key Business Use Cases for Kafka: Discover how enterprises leverage Kafka for real-time analytics, event-driven applications, log aggregation, fraud detection, and large-scale data pipelines.
- Strategic Guidance for Scaling & Optimization: Learn proven strategies for scaling Kafka clusters, optimizing performance, ensuring reliability, and managing costs in high-throughput environments.
- Effective Team Collaboration & Communication: Develop best practices for cross-team collaboration, aligning business and technical teams to tackle Kafka’s interdisciplinary challenges efficiently.
- Kafka’s Role in Data Governance & Compliance: Understand how to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance when implementing Kafka solutions in regulated industries.
- Event-Driven Architecture & Microservices: Learn how Kafka facilitates loosely coupled micro-services, enabling scalable and resilient application design.
- Operational Best Practices & Incident Management: Gain insights into real-world operational challenges, troubleshooting techniques, and how to respond effectively to Kafka incidents.
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Kafka Training for Operators are ideal for:
- System Administrators
- DevOps Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
- Anyone managing Kafka clusters or infrastructure
Kafka Trainings for Developers are ideal for:
- Software Developers
- Software Engineers
- IT professionals
- Data Engineers
- Architects
- Data Analysts
The Kafka Training for Management are ideal for:
- Product Owners
- Team Leads
- Scrum Master
- Managers
- Architects
If you’re unsure, feel free to reach out to us. We’re happy to help you.
- A basic understanding of Kafka concepts and operations
- Basic Kubernetes knowhow
- A laptop with internet access
- A desire to learn!
The trainings costs are:
- Dev and Ops Trainings (2 days): 2’200 CHF
- Management Trainings (1day): 1’900 CHF
The prices are per person. If multiple participants join from the same company, we’re happy to offer a 5% discount on the daily rate for each additional attendee (max. for 15 attendees).
For 5 attendees you’d pay 9’900 CHF instead of 11’000.
That’s great. With 4 and more people, we can offer you either a in-house training with tailor-made content for your company or you reach out via the waiting list and we’ll search a date that fits you for an open training slot, where other people may attend too.
We’ll also apply a discount of 5% per additional person.
As soon as we have 4 participants, we can execute the training.
We can provide the best learning experience for up to 15 attendees.