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Event time

Event time 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

Flink for Stream Processing

Event time, watermarks, state backends, checkpoints, savepoints, exactly-once sinks, Flink SQL and CDC.

12 ch · 4h 10m

1 free
⚡Compute Engines

Apache Spark: Streaming

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

20 ch · 6h 40m

1 free

Related topics

↗stateful streaming↗stream processing↗watermarks↗backpressure↗checkpointing↗DStreams↗exactly-once↗flink↗spark structured streaming↗stream joins

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