About this course
Explore how events move through modern data systems in this free IBM video course on streaming and event-driven architecture. The selected lessons connect Kafka, pipelines and real-time processing with analytics and AI use cases. The focus is understanding architecture choices rather than configuring a production Kafka cluster.
What you can learn
- Apache Kafka concepts
- Data pipelines
- Event-driven architecture
- ETL and ELT
- Real-time streaming
- Event processing
Course at a glance
| Provider | IBM |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · IBM Technology |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Intermediate — WikiFree audience assessment |
| Language | English |
| Selected lessons | 6 |
| Video duration | 49m · allow extra time for reflection and practice |
| Details checked | 9 October 2026 |
Inside the course
Follow an event from its source through a pipeline. Compare ETL with ELT, examine the role of Kafka, and consider how event discovery and processing support automated business capabilities.
Try this learning exercise
Sketch an order-tracking pipeline with producers, an event stream and two consumers. Explain which events must be processed immediately and which can be handled in a scheduled analytics job.
How to follow the course
Choose a lesson from the list or search for a specific topic. Use Previous and Next to continue, and mark lessons complete as you go. Progress is saved in this browser without a WikiFree account.
Free access, requirements and certificates
The selected public YouTube videos are free to watch. No paid subscription, payment card or examination is required for this video learning path. WikiFree independently organizes IBM Technology explainers and tutorials for self-paced study. This listing is not an official IBM qualification and does not include an IBM certificate, graded assignment or instructor feedback.
Basic database and application concepts will help. Watching and completing the paper-based exercise require no paid infrastructure.
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| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free Data Streaming Course: Kafka and Event-Driven Systems | Intermediate | Apache Kafka concepts · Data pipelines · Event-driven architecture | 49m of video; practice time is additional |
| Apache Kafka and Confluent on Google Cloud: Free Written Course | Intermediate | Apache Kafka · Kafka Streams · ksqlDB | Self-paced; duration not specified |
| Develop Dataflow Pipelines: Free Google Course Instruction | Professional | Beam pipeline design · Streaming-semantics vocabulary · I/O evaluation | 21 hours; provider full-course estimate including practical activities; instruction-only study time may differ. |
| Free Simplilearn Course: Apache Spark, PySpark and Scala | Intermediate | Spark SQL · PySpark · Streaming | 30h 8m of video; practice time is additional |
Provider: IBM. Videos play from the IBM Technology channel on YouTube.
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