Confluent Courses

Replication in Apache Kafka Explained - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Data Streaming Applications

Explore Apache Kafka® replication: challenges, approaches, monitoring, and failure handling. Gain practical insights through Docker and Jupyter notebook experiments, with code available on GitHub.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Our Multi-Year Journey to a 10x Faster Confluent Cloud

Explore the multi-year journey to enhance Confluent Cloud's performance, learning about workload design, cloud-native complexities, challenges faced, and key principles for improving data streaming systems.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Active-Active Geo-Replication in Venice - When Only the Last Writer Wins We All Lose

Explore active-active geo-replication in Venice, addressing challenges of last-writer-wins scenarios and enhancing data infrastructure for real-time, multi-source streaming across organizations.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Build Real-time Machine Learning Apps on Generative AI with Kafka Streams

Develop real-time ML applications using Generative AI and Kafka Streams, leveraging data in motion for intelligent, streaming-based solutions.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robinhood's Kafkaproxy - Decoupling Kafka Consumer Logic from Application Business Logic

Explore Robinhood's Consumer Proxy for efficient Kafka management. Learn how to decouple consumer logic, resource utilization, and failure handling from application code, enabling easier scaling and centralized infrastructure management.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Kafka, Flink, and Beyond: Current Developments and Future Innovations in Data Streaming - 2023

Explore recent advancements, upcoming improvements, and innovative applications in Kafka and Flink data streaming. Gain insights from industry leaders on tiered storage, queues, use cases, and two-phase commit protocol.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data Requirements for Real-Time Data Streaming Systems and Applications

Explore data requirements for real-time systems: quality, modeling, security, ingestion, retention, and integration. Gain insights for building efficient data streaming platforms.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data Contracts for Long-Term Schema Management in Apache Kafka

Learn effective long-term schema management using data contracts. Explore advantages of Avro and Protobuf, schema references, compatibility types, topic versioning, and tools for data discoverability in Apache Kafka.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Next-Gen Data Modeling, Integrity, and Governance with YODA - Insights from Yotpo and ZipRecruiter

Explore next-gen data modeling strategies for large-scale systems. Learn about YODA, an internal tool combining developer experience, DBT, Databricks, and more, to address data standardization and governance challenges.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Migrate Your Kafka Cluster with Minimal Downtime

Learn strategies and tools for migrating Kafka clusters with minimal downtime. Explore MirrorMaker, Confluent Replicator, and Cluster Linking. Gain insights on planning, execution, and overcoming challenges in Kafka migration.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Real-Time Data Transformation and Analytics with dbt Labs

Explore real-time data transformation and analytics with dbt Labs. Learn about Modern Data Stack, streaming analytics, and best practices for building efficient data pipelines and democratizing data access.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Future of Streaming Data - Challenges and Opportunities

Explore the future of streaming data, focusing on managing complex data connections, adopting Kafka internally, and addressing challenges in data governance, security, and movement across organizations.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

What Apache Kafka Developers Can Learn from Online Gaming

Explore how online gaming concepts enhance large-scale event management in Apache Kafka, including latency masking, conflict resolution, and seamless collaboration techniques for improved real-time data processing.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How to Use OpenTelemetry to Trace and Monitor Apache Kafka Systems

Gain insights into Apache Kafka event systems using OpenTelemetry for tracing and monitoring. Learn about application-level tracing, native Kafka support, and implementing event-level tracing in distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data Democratization: Importance, Tools, and Real-World Applications

Explore data democratization's importance in modern systems. Learn how making data accessible to all can drive better business decisions, foster collaboration, and provide valuable insights across organizations.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video