Lesson 56: Handling Failures
Module 4: The Matching Engine (Processor API)
Hands On Kafka
StreamSocial - a global social media analytics and engagement platform designed to handle 50M requests. This system will process user interactions, generate real-time trends, personalized feeds, and analytics across multiple services.
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Week 12 : Event-Driven Microservices & Production Readiness (Days 57–60)
StreamSocial Production Platform
Day 7: Offset Management Strategies
What we’ll build today
Lesson 55: Emitting the Match
Module 4: The Matching Engine (Processor API)
Day 6: Consumer Groups & Scalability
What we’ll build today
Week 11 : Monitoring, Logging & Kafka Security (Days 51–56)
StreamSocial Operations & Security Platform
Lesson 54: Locking Matches — Preventing Double-Booking at 3,000 Events/Sec
The Problem Nobody Talks About Until Production Burns
Lesson 52: Implementing the Search Loop
Module 4: The Matching Engine (Processor API)
Day 5: Engagement Consumer Development
What we’ll build today
Lesson 53: Distance Filtering — Why H3 Lies and How Haversine Saves You
The H3 Contract — What It Promises vs.
Day 4: High-Volume Producer Implementation
What we’re building today
Week 10 : Stateful Stream Processing & Interactive Queries (Days 46–50)
StreamSocial Stateful Processing Platform
Day 3: Topics & Partitions Strategy
What we’ll build today
Lesson 51: The K-Ring Algorithm — Inverted Index Search in RocksDB
The Problem Space
Week 9 : Kafka Streams Fundamentals & Stateless Processing (Days 41–45)
What We Will Build Today
Day 2: Kafka Cluster Setup
What we’ll build today
Lesson 50: Processing Rider Requests — The Spatial Normalization Gate
The Problem Nobody Talks About