Build Kafka (13 scenes)
Scene 01 · Foundations — what Kafka is, words you'll hear
Why Kafka exists and the seven core nouns (producer, broker, topic, partition, record, offset, consumer). Orientation before you touch anything.
Scene 01
Foundations — what Kafka is, words you'll hear
Diagram
Producers on the left, brokers in the center holding topics and their partitions, consumer groups on the right. The spotlight walks through one part at a time so you can put names to everything — broker, topic, partition, record, offset, consumer group — before any internals.
A quick three-beat tour. The problem first, then the architecture, then the eight words you'll need for the rest of the curriculum.