Confluent Courses

5-Minute Practical Streaming Techniques That Can Save You Millions

Learn cost-effective streaming optimization techniques to drastically reduce infrastructure expenses. Discover simple SQL methods and advanced strategies for distributed storage and compute stacks.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unlocking Real-Time Data Insights: Leveraging Confluent Cloud on Azure

Leverage Confluent Cloud on Azure to build real-time data flows, capture changes instantly, and simplify data pipeline development. Boost productivity and innovate faster with streaming data pipelines and self-service access.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Optimize Costs and Scale Streaming Applications with Virtually Unlimited Storage from AWS Services

Scale streaming apps with AWS services for unlimited storage and cost optimization. Learn to leverage tiered storage for long-term data retention, enabling agile decision-making and proactive strategies in event-driven architectures.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Exactly-Once Semantics Revisited: Distributed Transactions Across Flink and Kafka

Explore challenges and improvements in Exactly-Once Semantics for distributed transactions between Apache Flink and Kafka. Learn about proposed protocol changes and enhanced integration for robust data processing.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Time-State Analytics for Multidimensional Event Streams

Explore multidimensional time-state analytics for complex, large-scale metrics tracking. Learn about architectural and algorithmic solutions to improve performance, reduce costs, and simplify development.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Forecasting Kafka Lag Issues with Machine Learning

Learn to predict and manage Kafka Partition Lag using machine learning techniques. Explore normal and abnormal lag patterns, ensemble forecasting, and case studies for improved Kafka observability.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sustainability and Streaming Data: Merging Real-Time Insights, Green Futures and Profitability

Explore how streaming data applications enable real-time environmental insights, driving sustainable decisions and cost savings while addressing ethical considerations and maintaining profitability.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Raw Data to an Interactive Data App in an Hour - Powered by Snowpark Python

Develop a Streamlit data app to visualize advertising ROI using Snowpark Python. Learn data ingestion, transformation, ML modeling, and interactive visualization techniques.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Automatically Detect and Remediate Degraded Storage in Kafka

Discover an automated system for detecting and remediating degraded storage in Kafka, improving cluster performance and availability. Learn about monitoring, algorithm formulation, and mitigation strategies.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dynamic Change Data Capture with Flink CDC and Consistent Hashing

Implement dynamic Change Data Capture for large databases using Flink CDC connectors and consistent hashing. Overcome challenges with incremental snapshotting and Postgres replication slots.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Debezium Snapshots Revisited - Incremental Snapshots for CDC Pipelines

Explore innovative incremental snapshot techniques for Debezium CDC connectors. Learn to pause, resume, and parallelize snapshots, and customize snapshot contents for efficient data pipeline management.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Beyond Monoliths: Thrivent's Lessons in Building a Modern Integration Architecture

Explore strategies for modernizing data architecture, from technical aspects like JSON Schema and OpenTelemetry to human factors like building trust and adopting a product-focused mindset.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Flink SQL: The Challenges to Build a Streaming SQL Engine

Explore challenges in building a streaming SQL engine like Flink SQL. Learn about late data handling, change data processing, event ordering, nondeterminism, and state storage in stream processing.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

General Coordinates Network: Harnessing Kafka for Real-Time Open Astronomy at NASA

Explore NASA's use of Kafka for real-time astronomy data sharing, including architectural choices and OAuth2 implementation for public access in the General Coordinates Network.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Put Events to Work and Respond in Real Time

Unlock real-time event streams to detect trends, issues, and threats. Learn how IBM Event Automation empowers teams to process events, define scenarios, and automate decisions.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video