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Data Engineering

Kafka Fundamentals: Topics, Partitions, and Consumer Groups

May 18, 2026

How Apache Kafka works under the hood - what makes it different from a traditional message queue, and how producers, consumers, and partitions fit together.

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Data Engineering

Data Pipelines: ETL, ELT, and When Each Makes Sense

May 16, 2026

The difference between ETL and ELT, how modern data pipelines are built, and how to choose the right approach based on your actual constraints.

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