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Kafka
Apache Kafka fundamentals, Kafka Streams, event-driven architecture, and custom connectors.
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Kafka Connect & Custom Connectors
Kafka Connect architecture, source vs sink connectors, SMTs (Single Message Transforms), Debezium CDC, and building custom connectors.
Kafka Data Pipelines
Building high-volume data pipelines with Kafka — partitioning strategy, consumer lag monitoring, dead letter queues, schema evolution, and exactly-once ETL patterns.
Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka
Event sourcing, CQRS, outbox pattern, domain events vs integration events, event schema evolution with Avro/Schema Registry.
Kafka Fundamentals & Internals
Topics, partitions, offsets, brokers, replication, ISR, log compaction, and how Kafka achieves durability and high throughput.
Kafka Streams: Stateful Processing
Building idempotent, exactly-once data pipelines with Kafka Streams — topology design, state stores, and windowed aggregations.
Kafka Producers & Consumers
Producer batching, acks, idempotence, consumer groups, partition assignment, rebalancing, and at-least-once vs exactly-once delivery semantics.