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Apache Kafka — Real-Time Streaming & Event-Driven Pipelines

Cloud Data skills for the Data Engineer career path. Filter, model, and reason about the real data this role works with every day.

Professional Senior priority 1 Sandbox & Simulation Sandbox & Interactive Quiz
What you'll learn

Cloud Data skills for the Data Engineer

Building on Cloud Data Warehousing, this lesson focuses on the practical Cloud Data toolkit a working Data Engineer reaches for on the job.

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-- Cloud Data — your first interaction
SELECT example, value
FROM cloud-data_dataset
WHERE priority = '1'
  AND career = 'Data Engineer';

preview · Sprint-2 will replace this with a live runner
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Sprint-1 stub

This is the Sprint-1 stub for ai.careerplane.data-analytics.data-engineer.cloud-data.kafka-streaming. The fully-generated topic page (sandbox + quiz + AI hints + interactive tooling) lands in Sprint-2 at static/content/data-analytics/Data Engineer/Cloud Data/Apache Kafka — Real-Time Streaming & Event-Driven Pipelines/index.html (per arch/memo.md → D-2026-04-22-13). The //go:embed all:static directive auto-serves it on the next container rebuild — no server-code change needed.

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