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Data Infrastructure Overview

🌐 Data Infrastructure & Streaming

Modern data engineering requires managing a complex fleet of servers, brokers, and cloud services. This is where Data Platform Engineering begins.


🔍 Section Overview

Explore the backbone of real-time systems and how to manage them using code.

1. Apache Kafka Deep Dive

Master Kafka. Learn about Topics, Partitions, Replication, and the Consumer Group model for real-time data ingestion.

2. IaC with Terraform

Learn how to use Terraform or Pulumi to provision your data warehouses, buckets, and clusters in the cloud.


🎯 Key Learning Goals

  • Build a real-time ingestion pipeline using Kafka.
  • Provision cloud data infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Understand the trade-offs between different cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).