60-Day Kafka 4 Learning Plan · Week 9 — Day 60 of 60

Day 60 — Kafka Roadmap: Flink, Pulsar, Conduktor & Beyond

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· 1. Apache Flink — stateful stream processing at scale
· 2. Apache Pulsar — Kafka’s closest alternative
· 3. Kafka ecosystem tools — know these for interviews
∘ Conduktor
∘ Kafka UI (open source)
∘ Cruise Control (LinkedIn)
∘ Debezium
∘ KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler)
∘ Schema Registry
· 4. Your next learning steps
· 5. What you built in 60 days
· 6. Share Groups (Queues for Kafka) — a real Kafka 4.x feature this course never covered
· 7. Staying current after this course ends
· Final words
· Resources

60-Day Kafka 4 Learning Plan · Week 9 — Capstone & Career · FINAL DAY The series is complete. Here is where to go next.

1. Apache Flink — stateful stream processing at scale