Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka (RHCS-EDK) (Certification)

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka has demonstrated the ability to develop applications using Apache Kafka and Apache Kafka Streams.

A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka is able to:

• Understand and work with event-driven applications with the streams for Apache Kafka API
• Understand the Kafka ecosystem and architecture
• Understand and work with a Quarkus application connected to Kafka
• Provide and configure access to a Kafka cluster
• Provide and use the schema Red Hat Service Registry to decouple the data from the client applications, share, and manage the data types at runtime
• Understand, produce, test, and secure data-stream processing using the Kafka Streams API to perform an efficient management and real-time querying of application state
• Data integration with Kafka Connect
• Understand and use advanced event-driven patterns in applications based on Apache Kafka
• Troubleshoot most common problems in event-driven applications like maintaining message ordering, retries and idempotency, handling duplicate events, implement Streams test cases

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka credential is designed for:

• Java developers and architects who are implementing event-driven applications using Apache Kafka and Kubernetes.
• Red Hat Certified professionals who wish to pursue Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification.