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Modern organizations can’t wait until tomorrow to know what happened today: they need live visibility into orders per minute, anomaly rates, user activity, and so on. Real-time dashboards are no longer “nice to have”; they are essential for decision-making in e-commerce, finance, IoT, and operations. This course teaches you how to design and implement real-time dashboards powered by Apache Spark Structured Streaming.
Through three hands-on modules, you’ll first master the streaming fundamentals for dashboarding: micro-batches, triggers, checkpoints, and schema enforcement. Next, you’ll integrate Spark with Kafka to process real-world event streams, apply event-time windows and watermarks to handle late or out-of-order data, and persist metrics into Delta Lake for reliable BI consumption. Finally, you’ll learn how to publish dashboards, configure refresh strategies, optimize performance with caches and materialized views, monitor pipeline health, and ensure recovery under failure.
This course is ideal for data professionals, analysts, and engineers who want to build or operate real-time analytics systems. Whether you work in business intelligence, data engineering, or analytics, this course will help you turn streaming data into live, actionable dashboards.
Learners should know basic Python and Spark DataFrames, and be familiar with SQL and JSON to follow the course smoothly.
By the end, you won’t just know how to build a working dashboard; you’ll be able to operate one in production, keeping it accurate, fast, and trustworthy as data changes second by second.
Learners grasp Spark’s streaming model (micro-batch vs continuous), triggers, checkpoints, and how to shape a streaming sink as a readable, aggregatable table for dashboards.
What's included
5 videos3 readings
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5 videos•Total 42 minutes
Welcome to Build Real-Time Dashboards with Spark•3 minutes
Understand Spark’s Streaming Model for BI•9 minutes
Building the Streaming Foundation•10 minutes
Building Your First Aggregated KPI Table•9 minutes
Safe Parsing & Schema for Dashboard Reliability•10 minutes
3 readings•Total 35 minutes
Welcome to the Course: Course Overview•5 minutes
How to Build Real-Time Apache Kafka® Dashboards That Drive Action•5 minutes
Hands On Learning (HOL): Create and Query a Real-Time KPI Table•25 minutes
From Kafka to Delta: Streaming Windows for Live Metrics
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
Connect Spark to Kafka, parse events, and build event-time windowed aggregations with watermarks. Persist to Delta for dashboards with near real-time freshness.
What's included
3 videos2 readings
Show info about module content
3 videos•Total 30 minutes
Read from Kafka, Write Clean Metrics to Delta•12 minutes
Windows & Watermarks for Trustworthy KPIs•8 minutes
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