You can certainly try out things in a development environment. You could also think of contributing to the project itself as that will encourage you to develop deeper skills.
But you are right. Kafka is pretty straightforward to setup and get running. The real skill IMO is in the ability to troubleshoot when things go wrong. And that comes only when you see it running in a production environment. On 29 Mar 2016 8:10 a.m., "S Ahmed" <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This may be a silly question for some but here goes :) > > Without real production experience, what steps do you suggest one take to > really have some solid skillz in kafka? > > I tend to learn in a structured way, but it just seems that since kafka is > a general purpose tool there isn't really a course per say that teaches you > all things kafka. > > There are books but the one I read was more of a tutorial on certain > aspects of kafka but it doesn't give you the insights of building a real > production system. > > Any suggestions or tips? >
