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Flink shows up across 2 courses in 1 layerof 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

Stream Processing Architecture: Kafka Streams vs Flink vs Spark

A decision framework for choosing a stream processor on latency, state, guarantees, ops cost, and team fit.

9 ch · 3h 10m

1 free

Related topics

↗stream processing↗checkpointing↗delivery semantics↗event time↗exactly-once↗kafka streams↗spark structured streaming↗stateful streaming↗stream processing tradeoffs↗watermarks

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