Dive into the world of Apache Kafka® with this comprehensive 13-part video tutorial series presented by Tim Berglund, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at Confluent. Learn about this powerful open-source event streaming platform used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. Explore Kafka's architecture, core concepts, and connector ecosystem through in-depth explanations and hands-on code examples. Discover the benefits and use cases of Kafka, from its origins as a publish-subscribe messaging system at LinkedIn to its current status as a versatile data streaming solution. Master topics such as partitioning, brokers, replication, producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, and ksqlDB through a mix of theoretical lessons and practical exercises.