learning-path.md

📚 Learning Path

Why: A focused sequence to exercise the stack end‑to‑end.

🚀 How

• Quick Connections → sanity check services

  • notebooks/examples/quick-connections.ipynb

• Streaming Fundamentals → Kafka + Spark basics

  • notebooks/lessons/streaming/streaming-fundamentals-lesson.ipynb

• Multi‑Topic Streaming with Schema Registry → validate multi‑topic Avro

  • notebooks/lessons/streaming/multi-topic-streaming-lesson.ipynb

• Bronze Layer with Iceberg → build raw events table

  • notebooks/lessons/streaming/bronze-layer-iceberg-example.ipynb

• Spark DML + Time Travel (Iceberg)

  • notebooks/lessons/iceberg/spark-iceberg-dml.ipynb

📝 Notes

• Start with the core profile; add others as needed.
• If builds hang on provenance, see troubleshooting.md.