How a non-Java developer prepared for and passed the Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka exam, which assumes the Java APIs throughout.

Set up a Kafka cluster with Docker Compose, the base for a series on developing and testing Kafka applications for AWS in containers.

A survey of the Kafka connectors available for AWS service integration, as the starting point for building real time data pipelines on AWS.

Set up a self-managed blog with Hugo and GitHub Pages, including why Hugo was chosen over Jekyll and Pelican for its themes and features.

Integrate Python Kafka producer and consumer apps running on AWS Lambda with the Glue Schema Registry, which manages and validates message schemas.

Stream Kafka records from Amazon MSK into Athena through its direct integration, with a producer Lambda built locally using AWS SAM and Terraform.

Stream Kafka records from Amazon MSK into Redshift through its direct integration, with a producer Lambda built locally using AWS SAM and Terraform.

Configure a Kafka consumer to seek offsets by timestamp while partitions are assigned by subscription, on a single node cluster in Docker Compose.

Transform IMDb data with dbt on Amazon Athena using the dbt-athena adapter, the last part of the dbt on AWS series.

Transform IMDb data with dbt on Amazon EMR on EKS, through a Spark Thrift server kept running on Kubernetes by a small wrapper class.