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Backpressure

Backpressure shows up across 2 courses in 2 layersof the data platform stack. Here's where it's taught, a free way to practice it, and what to learn next.

Where it's taught

⇄Ingestion & Transport

Designing a Production Ingestion Platform

Architect an end-to-end ingestion platform: contracts, taxonomy, multi-tenancy, DLQ/replay, cost, cross-region.

12 ch · 4h 25m

1 free
⚡Compute Engines

Apache Spark: Streaming

DStreams, Structured Streaming, event time, watermarks, Kafka deep integration.

20 ch · 6h 40m

1 free

Related topics

↗capacity planning↗data contracts↗dead letter queue↗disaster recovery↗DStreams↗event time↗ingestion architecture↗multi-tenancy↗schema registry↗spark structured streaming

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Start: Designing a Production Ingestion Platform →All strata
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