Real-Time & Streaming Systems

Learn the core patterns behind reliable real-time data pipelines: partition-key strategies for ordering guarantees, event-time vs. processing-time windowing with watermarks, idempotent consumers that survive at-least-once delivery, backpressure and deliberate load-shedding under bursty load, and schema registry compatibility gates that catch breaking changes before they reach production.

Builds on: Apache Kafka + Avro/Schema Registry