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.

Build Real-Time Dashboards with Spark

Build Real-Time Dashboards with Spark
This course is part of Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers Specialization


Instructors: Starweaver
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What you'll learn
Explain Spark’s streaming model and produce a dashboard-ready table from a simple file source.
Construct a real-time pipeline that ingests from Kafka, processes with Spark, and stores result in Delta using event-time windows and watermarks.
Operate a production-oriented dashboard with refresh policies, monitoring, and failure recovery.
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There are 3 modules in this course
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.
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5 videos3 readings
Connect Spark to Kafka, parse events, and build event-time windowed aggregations with watermarks. Persist to Delta for dashboards with near real-time freshness.
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3 videos2 readings
Publish dashboards, set refresh policies (auto-refresh/materialized views/cache TTL), monitor query health, and design for failure recovery and scale.
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4 videos3 readings1 assignment
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