Microservices and Kafka tutorial. Real-world Kafka use case with an e-commerce app. Microservices architecture with Kafka Kraft mode and Node.js

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00:00 Introduction
01:08 Why Should You Use Microservices?
04:35 Microservices Tutorial
06:36 How to Use Kafka in Microservices Architecture
09:54 E-Commerce App Microservices Design Example
16:08 How Does Kafka Work? (Topics, Partititons, Sending Messages)
21:19 How to Install a Kafka Server Using Docker? (KRaft Mode)
27:29 Kafka Node.js Installation with Kafkajs
30:09 Kafkajs Producers and Sending Topic Messages
33:28 Kafkajs Consumers and Receiving Topic Messages
48:14 How to Create a Kafka Cluster?
49:25 Kafka Cluster with KRaft Mode Explained (Brokers, Controllers)
52:28 Docker Kafka Cluster with KRaft
01:01:24 Kafka Topics with Partitions and Replications
01:04:05 Outro

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A comprehensive tutorial demonstrating how to transform a monolithic e-commerce application into a microservices architecture using Apache Kafka for inter-service communication. The guide covers breaking down payment, order, email, and analytics services into independent components, implementing Kafka producers and consumers, setting up Docker containers, and creating fault-tolerant Kafka clusters with multiple brokers and partitions. The tutorial includes practical code examples showing how to handle asynchronous messaging, reduce response times from 12 seconds to 3 seconds, and ensure system resilience through distributed architecture.

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