Master real-time stream processing with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB. Comprehensive guide covering stateless and stateful operations, windowing, joins, aggregations, and production deployment patterns for building scalable streaming applications.
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Kafka Connect in Production: Building Scalable Data Integration Pipelines
Master Kafka Connect for building production-ready data integration pipelines. Comprehensive guide covering source and sink connectors, Single Message Transforms, distributed deployment, error handling, and operational best practices for streaming data between Kafka and external systems.
Kafka Consumers: Building Reliable Data Pipelines with Consumer Groups
Master Kafka consumer patterns for building resilient data consumption pipelines. Comprehensive guide covering consumer groups, offset management, rebalancing strategies, delivery semantics, and performance optimization with production examples in C#, Node.js, and Python.
Kafka Producers: Patterns and Best Practices for Reliable Data Ingestion
Master Kafka producer patterns for production deployments. Comprehensive guide covering idempotent producers, transactions, batching, compression, error handling, and performance optimization with working examples in C#, Node.js, and Python.
Apache Kafka Architecture Fundamentals: Building Production-Ready Event Streaming Platforms
Master Apache Kafka’s distributed architecture fundamentals. Comprehensive guide covering core components, KRaft consensus protocol, replication strategies, and production deployment patterns for building scalable event streaming platforms.
Azure AI Foundry with Anthropic Claude Part 7: Production Patterns – Monitoring, Security, and Optimization
Comprehensive production deployment guide for Claude in Azure AI Foundry. Learn Application Insights monitoring, prompt caching optimization, Azure Key Vault security, rate limiting strategies, high availability patterns, cost optimization techniques, and enterprise-grade reliability patterns for production systems.
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Azure AI Foundry with Anthropic Claude Part 6: Claude Code + Azure DevOps Integration – Automated Development Workflows
Comprehensive guide to integrating Claude Code with Azure AI Foundry and Azure DevOps. Learn environment setup, CLAUDE.md project context, GitHub Actions workflows, automated code review, test generation, Azure DevOps pipelines, and documentation automation for enterprise development workflows.
Azure AI Foundry with Anthropic Claude Part 5: Enterprise C# Integration – Complete .NET Implementation Guide
Enterprise C# implementation guide for Claude in Azure AI Foundry. Learn Anthropic SDK integration, DefaultAzureCredential authentication, strongly-typed configuration, conversation management, streaming responses, dependency injection patterns, and production-ready application architecture.
Azure AI Foundry with Anthropic Claude Part 4: Python Implementation with Azure SDK – Complete Async Guide
Python’s rich ecosystem and async capabilities make it an excellent choice for building AI applications with Claude in Azure AI Foundry. This comprehensive guide demonstrates
