Streaming API Development and Documentation

Course

In this course you will grow your expertise in the components of streaming data systems, and build a real time analytics application. Specifically, you will be able to identify components of Spark Streaming (architecture and API), build a continuous application with Structured Streaming, consume and process data from Apache Kafka with Spark Structured Streaming (including setting up and running a Spark Cluster), create a DataFrame as an aggregation of source DataFrames, sink a composite DataFrame to Kafka, and visually inspect a data sink for accuracy.

Advanced
2 weeks
Last Updated August 29, 2023

Skills you'll learn:

Apache SparkJSON

Prerequisites:

Intermediate PythonIntermediate SQLETL

Advanced

2 weeks

Last Updated August 29, 2023

Skills you'll learn:

Apache Spark • JSON • Kafka basics • Kafka connect

Prerequisites:

Intermediate Python • Intermediate SQL • ETL

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Welcome

Introduction to Data Streaming with Spark

Lesson 2

Streaming Dataframes, Views, and Spark SQL

In this lesson, you'll learn about working with Spark Dataframes and views.

Lesson 3

Joins and JSON

In this lesson, you'll learn how to work with JSON and complete Joins for data streaming.

Lesson 4

Redis, Base64 and JSON

This lesson will focus on working with Redis, Base64, and JSON in Data Streaming.

Lesson 5 • Project

Evaluate Human Balance with Spark Streaming

As your final project for this course, you will demonstrate the skills you have learned by evaluating human balance with spark streaming.

Taught By The Best

Sean Murdock

Professor at Brigham Young University Idaho

Sean currently teaches cybersecurity and DevOps courses at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has been a software engineer for over 16 years. Some of the most exciting projects he has worked on involved data pipelines for DNA processing and vehicle telematics.

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