Udemy – Redpanda Mastery: From Zero to Real-Time Streaming Expert

In this comprehensive course, you’ll start from the fundamentals of event streaming and progressively build hands-on skills using Redpanda. Whether you’re a software engineer, backend developer, data engineer, or DevOps professional, this course will give you the practical skills needed to design and operate modern real-time systems.

You will learn how to:

• Understand event streaming platforms and the principles behind them.
• Explain why Redpanda’s pure C++ engine (no JVM, no ZooKeeper) makes it faster and simpler than Kafka.
• Install Redpanda and create your first topic and message hands-on.
• Work with clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, offsets, producers, and consumers.
• Build producer and consumer applications in both Python and Node.js.
• Apply retention policies, log compaction, and idempotence to manage data reliably.
• Set up tiered storage with MinIO S3 for cost-effective, scalable data management.
• Process live streaming data with Flink SQL and understand batch vs. stream processing.
• Monitor and secure Redpanda deployments using Redpanda Console.
• Benchmark Redpanda against Kafka and RabbitMQ to understand real-world performance tradeoffs.