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Kafka streams

Kafka streams 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

Kafka Streams in Production

KStream/KTable, state stores, windowing, joins, topology, rebalancing, and interactive queries.

10 ch · 3h 30m

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↗delivery semantics↗flink↗KStream KTable↗RocksDB↗spark structured streaming↗stateful streaming↗stream joins↗stream processing tradeoffs↗windowing

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