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Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers

Name: Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers
Price: 49 USD
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About this course

Learn the complete lifecycle of real-time data engineering with Apache Kafka and Spark through hands-on projects that mirror production challenges at companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, and Uber. This comprehensive specialization teaches you to design high-availability streaming architectures, optimize Kafka clusters for millions of events per second, implement exactly-once processing semantics, manage schema evolution without downtime, and build real-time dashboards that power instant business decisions. Starting with Kafka performance tuning and progressing through Spark Structured Streaming, CDC pipelines, and production orchestration, you'll gain the skills to architect, implement, and operate enterprise-grade streaming systems. Each course includes practical labs where you'll configure distributed systems, diagnose performance bottlenecks, handle failures gracefully, and deploy pipelines that transform high-velocity data into immediate business value.

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What you'll learn

design high-availability streaming architectures
optimize Kafka clusters for millions of events per second
implement exactly-once processing semantics
manage schema evolution without downtime
build real-time dashboards

Machine Learning #distributed systems #data engineering #data pipelines #performance tuning #schema evolution #spark #apache kafka #streaming architectures #real-time dashboards #exactly-once processing #business insights

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