Streaming Systems

Master core concepts with guided docs and AI explainers for difficult jargon.

Tier 1 -- Foundations

14 docs

Event-Driven Foundations

Delivery Semantics5 min read · delivery-semantics
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Event-Driven Architecture5 min read · event-driven-architecture
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Event Time vs Processing Time6 min read · event-time-vs-processing-time
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Pub/Sub vs Queue5 min read · pub-sub-vs-queue
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Stream vs Batch5 min read · stream-vs-batch
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Kafka Mental Model

Brokers & Replication7 min read · brokers-and-replication
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Consumer Groups6 min read · consumer-groups
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Kafka Anatomy5 min read · kafka-anatomy
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Offsets & Commits7 min read · offsets-and-commits
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Producers & Consumers7 min read · producers-and-consumers
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Topics & Partitions5 min read · topics-and-partitions
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Stream Processing Landscape

Flink Anatomy9 min read · flink-anatomy
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Kafka Streams vs Flink vs Spark9 min read · kafka-streams-vs-flink-vs-spark
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Stream Processor Roles8 min read · stream-processor-roles
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Tier 2 -- Core Concepts

25 docs
Backpressure10 min read · backpressure
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Checkpointing12 min read · checkpointing
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Compaction & Retention10 min read · compaction-and-retention
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DataStream API11 min read · datastream-api
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Flink Deployment Modes11 min read · flink-deployment-modes
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Flink SQL11 min read · flink-sql
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Idempotent Producers10 min read · idempotent-producers
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Kafka Connect13 min read · kafka-connect
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Late Data Handling11 min read · late-data-handling
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Leader Election10 min read · leader-election
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Log Storage9 min read · log-storage
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Monitoring Consumer Lag11 min read · monitoring-consumer-lag
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Partition Strategy11 min read · partition-strategy
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Rebalancing12 min read · rebalancing
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Replication & ISR9 min read · replication-and-isr
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Savepoints11 min read · savepoints
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Schema Registry11 min read · schema-registry
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State Backends11 min read · state-backends
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State Management11 min read · state-management
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Stream-Stream Joins11 min read · stream-stream-joins
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Stream-Table Joins12 min read · stream-table-joins
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Throughput vs Latency Tuning11 min read · throughput-vs-latency-tuning
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Transactions & Exactly-Once10 min read · transactions-and-exactly-once
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Watermarks10 min read · watermarks
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Windowing10 min read · windowing
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Tier 3 -- Production & System Design

12 docs
Activity Feed9 min read · activity-feed
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CDC Pipelines10 min read · cdc-pipelines
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Click-Stream Analytics11 min read · click-stream-analytics
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Cross-Region Replication10 min read · cross-region-replication
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Disaster Recovery10 min read · disaster-recovery
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Event Sourcing10 min read · event-sourcing
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Fraud Detection Pipeline10 min read · fraud-detection-pipeline
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Lambda vs Kappa10 min read · lambda-vs-kappa
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ML Feature Pipeline15 min read · ml-feature-pipeline
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Outbox Pattern9 min read · outbox-pattern
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Real-Time Leaderboard16 min read · real-time-leaderboard
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Real-Time Notifications9 min read · real-time-notifications
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