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Apache Iceberg — The Open Table Format Explained

Snapshots, schema evolution, partition evolution, time travel, and compaction.

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Apache Kafka — Core Concepts and When to Use It

Topics, partitions, consumer groups, and the use cases where Kafka excels.

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Data Governance — Principles and Practical Implementation

Ownership, cataloguing, lineage tracking, and access control at scale.

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Apache Spark — Core Concepts and When to Use It

RDDs, DataFrames, Spark SQL, and the use cases where Spark is the right tool.

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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Lakehouse

Practical comparison of the three architectures and how to choose.

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Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) — Federated SQL Across Data Sources

Architecture, connectors, query federation, and performance tuning.

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Real-Time Analytics Architecture Patterns

Lambda, Kappa, HTAP, and choosing the right pattern for sub-second analytics.

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Schema Registry and Avro for Kafka Data Contracts

Why schema management matters for streaming pipelines and how to implement it.

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Orchestrating Pipelines with Apache Airflow

DAGs, operators, scheduling, and production best practices for Airflow.

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Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Event time vs processing time, windows, stateful operators, and production deployment.

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