Topic creation in Kafka - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Kafka Topic Creation

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a Kafka environment to handle messages for a small online store. You need to create a topic where order messages will be sent and received.

🎯 Goal: Create a Kafka topic named orders with 3 partitions and a replication factor of 1 using the Kafka command line tool.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a topic named orders

Set the number of partitions to 3

Set the replication factor to 1

Use the Kafka kafka-topics.sh command line tool

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Kafka topics organize messages by category, helping systems handle data streams efficiently.

💼 Career

Kafka topic creation is a fundamental skill for data engineers and backend developers working with real-time data pipelines.

1

Set up the Kafka topic creation command

Write the command to create a Kafka topic named orders using kafka-topics.sh with the --create option.

Kafka

# Write the kafka-topics.sh command to create the topic 'orders'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use kafka-topics.sh --create --topic orders as the base command.

2

Add partitions configuration

Extend the command to set the number of partitions to 3 using the --partitions option.

Kafka

kafka-topics.sh --create --topic orders
# Add --partitions 3 to the command
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Add --partitions 3 to specify the number of partitions.

3

Add replication factor configuration

Add the --replication-factor 1 option to the command to set the replication factor to 1.

Kafka

kafka-topics.sh --create --topic orders --partitions 3
# Add --replication-factor 1 to the command
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use --replication-factor 1 to set replication factor.

4

Display the created topic details

Write the command to describe the orders topic using kafka-topics.sh with the --describe option.

Kafka

kafka-topics.sh --create --topic orders --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1
# Write the command to describe the topic 'orders'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use kafka-topics.sh --describe --topic orders to see topic details.