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Kafka Learning Roadmap
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Completed:
[x] 01. Installation - Kafka 3.9.0 KRaft mode setup on Ubuntu
[x] 02. Fundamentals - Architecture, use cases, components
[x] 03. Core Concepts - Topics, Partitions, Offsets, Segments, Replication
[x] 04. Performance - Disk storage, sequential I/O, zero-copy, batching
[x] 05. Producers - Configuration, partitioning, acks, retries, idempotence
[x] 06. Consumers - Consumer groups, offset management, poll loop, patterns
[x] 07. Rebalancing - Protocols, assignment strategies, static membership
[x] 08. Consumer Lag - Monitoring, causes, alerting, remediation
[x] 09. Rate Limiting - Producer/consumer throttling, quotas, multi-tenant
[x] 10. Kafka Connect - Source/sink connectors, transforms, REST API
[x] 11. Kafka Streams - KStream, KTable, topology, windowing, state stores

Pending:
[ ] 13. Spring Boot - Spring Kafka, templates, listeners, configuration

Recently Added:
[x] 12. KRaft vs ZooKeeper - Architecture differences, Schema Registry with Connect