# Kafka Streams 101 โ€“ resources to get started **URL:** \ **Category:** Kafka Streams\ **Created:** [4 November 2021 16:15 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-streams-101-resources-to-get-started/3283 "2021-11-04T16:15:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mbii](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/mbii/32/1071_2.png) [@mbii](https://forum.confluent.io/u/mbii)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2021 16:15 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-streams-101-resources-to-get-started/3283/1 "2021-11-04T16:15:37Z")
Kafka Streams is a native streaming library for Apache Kafkaยฎ that enables you to perform business logic on an event stream of records coming into Apache Kafka topics. You may also know that it provides an abstraction over Kafka consumers and producers. But thereโ€™re so much to it. Learn how stream processing works with these free resources to get up to speed on building event streaming applications: ๐ŸŽฅ **Course:** [Kafka Streams 101](https://developer.confluent.io/learn-kafka/kafka-streams/get-started/) ๐Ÿ“Ž **Tutorial:** [Your First Kafka Streams Application](https://kafka-tutorials.confluent.io/creating-first-apache-kafka-streams-application/confluent.html) ๐Ÿ“ **Blog:** [A Guide to Kafka Streams and Its Uses](https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-kafka-streams-works-guide-to-stream-processing/) ๐ŸŽ™ **Podcast:** [Real-Time Stream Processing with Kafka Streams ft. Bill Bejeck](https://developer.confluent.io/podcast/real-time-stream-processing-with-kafka-streams-ft-bill-bejeck) ๐Ÿ“… **Live meetup replay:** [Kafka Streams 101](https://forum.confluent.io/t/recording-available-kafka-streams-101/3268) ---
**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2021 11:02 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-streams-101-resources-to-get-started/3283/2 "2021-11-05T11:02:31Z")