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Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers Specialization

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Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers Specialization

Real-Time Kafka & Spark Data Engineering. Build fault-tolerant streaming pipelines processing millions of events with Kafka & Spark.

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design and optimize Kafka clusters for high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance in production environments
Build end-to-end streaming pipelines with Spark Structured Streaming, exactly-once semantics, and schema evolution
Implement real-time dashboards, orchestration, and disaster recovery for enterprise streaming architectures

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