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Masterclasses
Ready for some intensive hands-on learning? Our masterclasses provide the resources you need to quickly gain proficiency with Redpanda.
Redpanda benchmarks
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Tech talks
Watch our tech visionaries draw out Redpanda subsystems, interfaces, and more.
Unify real-time and historical data with Shadow Indexing
Redpanda founder Alex Gallego talks and illustrates how we built our Shadow Indexing tiered storage system for limitless ingestion and retention of data.
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Optimizing Redpanda's read path for tiered storage
Redpanda founder and CEO Alex Gallego discusses Redpanda internals, live-drawing about how we optimize the read path for tiered storage.
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Write path optimizations for tiered storage
Redpanda founder Alex Gallego illustrates subsystems, this time focusing on write path optimizations for tiered storage.
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Streaming guides
Dive into the foundations of streaming data, Apache Kafka and more!
Understanding Apache Kafka
Learn the most important Kafka fundamentals, features, and popular use cases.
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Improving performance in Apache Kafka
Understand what affects Kafka's performance and how you can optimize it.
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Comparing Apache Kafka alternatives
Compare popular Kafka alternatives and how they stack up against Redpanda.
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Data engineering 101
Learn how data engineering converts raw data into actionable business insights.
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Understanding event stream processing
Learn about the principles, considerations, best practices, and trends of event stream processing.
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Kafka architecture—a deep dive
Learn the basic building blocks and explore Kafka's design principles.
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You'll find it's easy to install and simple to get up and running with our lightening-fast streaming data platform.