What We’re Building Today
Today you’ll deploy a production-grade distributed log streaming platform that forms the backbone of modern event-driven architectures. By the end of this lesson, you’ll have:
Multi-broker Kafka cluster with 3 nodes configured for high availability and fault tolerance
Partitioned topic architecture supporting parallel log processing at 50,000+ events per second
Comprehensive monitoring stack with real-time metrics for throughput, latency, and consumer lag
Automated health checking system that validates cluster state and triggers alerts on degradation
Load testing framework simulating production traffic patterns with configurable throughput profiles
