Kafka fundamentals
Brokers, topics, partitions, replication, producers, consumers, consumer groups and delivery semantics.
Training
Enterprise Integration Training & Mentoring
Practical, architecture-led training for engineers, administrators, developers and architects working with enterprise integration platforms. Build hands-on skills across Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, IBM MQ and enterprise middleware—from fundamentals and platform operations through security, automation, stream processing and architecture.
- Foundation
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Architecture
Apache Kafka & Confluent Event streaming architecture & operations
Confluent Cloud architecture & operations
Cluster architecture, service accounts, OAuth identity pools, RBAC, ACLs, Schema Registry and secure workload access.
Real-time stream processing
Flink SQL, Kafka Streams, stateful processing, joins, windows, deduplication and production patterns.
Kafka Connect & enterprise integration
Source and sink connectors, integration patterns, connector configuration, security and operational management.
Infrastructure automation & CI/CD
Terraform, deployment pipelines, environment management and infrastructure-as-code patterns for Kafka and Flink.
Security, governance & observability
OAuth, RBAC, client-side field level encryption, governance, Metrics API, Prometheus, troubleshooting and operational recovery.
IBM MQ Administration, architecture & modernisation
MQ administration & operations
Queue managers, queues, channels and messaging patterns, installation and configuration across Linux, Unix and Windows, and day-to-day administration.
Clustering & high availability
MQ clusters, repository design, workload balancing and highly available queue managers.
Disaster recovery & RDQM
Replicated Data Queue Managers, cross-data-centre replication and three-node RDQM clusters.
Security & TLS
Channel authentication, TLS certificates and cipher configuration, authorisation records and securing queue manager access.
MQ cloud & container modernisation
Moving queue managers to AWS, running MQ on Kubernetes, and planning on-premises migrations.
Automation & modernisation
Pipeline-driven MQ object deployment, and integrating or migrating MQ estates towards event streaming.
IBM WebSphere Integration Bus & enterprise middleware
WebSphere administration
Installation, configuration and day-to-day administration of WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment.
Topology & resilience
Cells, clusters and deployment topology, plus disaster recovery setup across Unix, Linux and Windows.
Portal & Web Content Manager
WebSphere Portal and WCM configuration, clustering, and directory integration with LDAP and Active Directory.
Integration Bus & Message Broker
Message flow development and administration across Message Broker, IIB and WebSphere ESB.
Upgrades & modernisation
Version upgrade planning and execution, from legacy WebSphere releases through to current supported versions.
Automation & cloud
Automated environment builds with Jenkins, Bamboo and Chef, and moving legacy estates to AWS.
Audience
Who is this training for?
- Integration Engineers
- Kafka Engineers
- IBM MQ Administrators
- Developers
- DevOps & Platform Engineers
- Solution Architects
- Integration Architects
Training tailored to your environment
Training can be customised around your organisation's architecture, technology stack and skill gaps—from introductory workshops to advanced architecture and production-readiness sessions. Because the same engineer designs, builds and supports these platforms in production, sessions use your real deployment patterns rather than generic examples.
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