Real-Time Streaming Analytics: Kafka & PySpark
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Data Engineering Tech Stack: Python · Apache Kafka · Docker · PySpark Structured Streaming · JVM The Problem: Batch is Too Slow In modern e-commerce, waiting 24 hours to analyze sales data is no longer acceptable. Businesses need to know what is selling right now — to manage inventory, detect fraud, and trigger real-time marketing. To solve this, I designed and built a decoupled, event-driven streaming architecture locally. This project serves as a blueprint for how enterprise companies move from static batch processing to real-time data-in-motion. ...