A complete, runnable project that demonstrates distributed event-driven design, backend engineering, and observability skills hiring managers look for in senior and staff-level engineers.
Learn to build a scalable, event-driven personal data pipeline using FastAPI, Kafka, and PostgreSQL — a portfolio project that signals senior-level systems thinking.
How to design a reliable CDC pipeline from PostgreSQL to downstream systems using Debezium — covering WAL internals, connector configuration, schema evolution, and the failure modes you’ll hit in production.
A deep dive into Redpanda’s C++ core, the Raft-based controller quorum that replaces ZooKeeper, and what tradeoffs come with deleting a coordination service from your streaming stack.
A field guide to implementing distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry across Kafka message boundaries and gRPC calls, including header propagation, instrumented producers and consumers, and the failure modes that leave orphaned spans.