Overall Objectives

Compiled Learning Objectives

At the end of the sprint, you should be able to do the following things. Make sure to check you can do them all, and if not, go back and keep practicing until you can.

Multiple queues (Prep)

• Run multiple Kafka topics.
• Assign jobs to separate Kafka topics.

Handling Errors (Prep)

• Explain what command line jobs are and aren’t desirable to automatically retry.
• Explain the risks of enqueueing retries on the same topic as first attempts.
• Avoid overloading queues by adding delays between retries.
• Define and describe a Dead Letter Queue.
• Retry failed jobs on a separate Kafka topic.