These are slides for Learning Journal Udemy Course on Apache Kafka for beginners. You can get this course at Udemy using link belo https://www.udemy.com/course/apache-kafka-for-beginners/?referralCode=CED0E2CC52F415729306 In this first lecture, I am going to talk about the following things. 1. What is Apache Kafka? 2. How does it work? 3. Where does it come from? 4. How it evolved over time? 5. Where does it fit into an Enterprise Application Ecosystem?