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Build Real-Time Dashboards with Spark

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Build Real-Time Dashboards with Spark

Starweaver
Caio Avelino

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Intermediate level

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4 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Explain Spark’s streaming model and produce a dashboard-ready table from a simple file source.

  • Construct a real-time pipeline that ingests from Kafka, processes with Spark, and stores result in Delta using event-time windows and watermarks.

  • Operate a production-oriented dashboard with refresh policies, monitoring, and failure recovery.

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January 2026

Assessments

1 assignment

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Real-Time, Real Fast: Kafka & Spark for Data Engineers Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course

Learners grasp Spark’s streaming model (micro-batch vs continuous), triggers, checkpoints, and how to shape a streaming sink as a readable, aggregatable table for dashboards.

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5 videos3 readings

Connect Spark to Kafka, parse events, and build event-time windowed aggregations with watermarks. Persist to Delta for dashboards with near real-time freshness.

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3 videos2 readings

Publish dashboards, set refresh policies (auto-refresh/materialized views/cache TTL), monitor query health, and design for failure recovery and scale.

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4 videos3 readings1 assignment

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