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.
Category: Distributed Systems
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.
Why Building a URL Shortener Taught Me Everything About Cloud Architecture
Building a URL shortener that handles 100 million URLs per day teaches fundamental lessons about cloud architecture, distributed systems, and Azure services. This series explores every architectural decision needed to build production-ready systems at scale.
