- Introducing Kafka: history, Kafka at LinkedIn, Kafka adoption in the industry, why Kafka
- Kafka core concepts: topics, partitions, replicas, producers, consumers, brokers
- Operating Kafka: architecture, hardware specs, deploying, monitoring, performance and scalability tuning
- Developing Kafka apps: writing to Kafka, reading from Kafka, testing, serialization, compression, example apps (with kafka-storm-starter)
- Playing with Kafka using Wirbelsturm
More: http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2014/08/18/apache-kafka-training-deck-and-tutorial/