
Duration: 4 Weeks | Total Time: 40 Hours
Format: Live online sessions using Google meet or MS Teams with hands-on coding, mini-projects, and a capstone project by an industry expert.
Target Audience: College Students, Professionals in Finance, HR, Marketing, Operations, Analysts, and Entrepreneurs
Tools Required: Laptop with internet
Trainer: Industry professional with hands on expertise
Week 1: Introduction to Apache Flink and Core Concepts (6 Hours)
- Overview of Apache Flink and its role in modern data analytics
- Understanding distributed stream and batch processing
- Flink architecture — Job Manager, Task Manager, and DataFlow
- Setting up Apache Flink (Local/Cluster mode)
- Writing your first Flink application
- Hands-on: Data stream basics and running simple jobs
Week 2: DataStream API and Transformations (6 Hours)
- Working with Flink’s DataStream API
- Key transformations: map, flatMap, filter, reduce, and aggregate
- Handling event time and processing time
- Understanding windows (tumbling, sliding, session windows)
- State management and checkpointing fundamentals
- Hands-on: Real-time stream transformations and aggregation exercises
Week 3: Advanced Stream Processing and Integrations (6 Hours)
- Connecting Flink with Kafka for real-time data ingestion
- Integrating with external systems (HDFS, Cassandra, JDBC, Elasticsearch)
- Flink Table API and SQL for declarative analytics
- Working with stateful streaming and process functions
- Managing late data and watermarks
- Hands-on: Building a streaming pipeline with Kafka + Flink + HDFS
Week 4: Flink in Production and Analytics Project (6 Hours)
- Flink cluster deployment and scaling strategies
- Monitoring, metrics, and performance optimization
- Error handling, fault tolerance, and backpressure management
- Advanced use cases — IoT analytics, real-time dashboards, anomaly detection
- Capstone Project: End-to-End Real-Time Analytics Pipeline using Flink
- Final review, assessment, and Q&A
Mini Project Ideas (Week 4 Hands-on)
Learners will design and deploy real-time data analytics applications such as:
- Project 1: Real-Time Log Monitoring System using Flink + Kafka
- Project 2: Sensor Data Stream Analytics with Flink SQL
- Project 3: Fraud Detection Pipeline using Flink CEP and ML Integration
Teaching Methodology
- Live Interactive Sessions with practical demos
- Hands-on Labs after each topic
- Assignments & Quizzes for concept reinforcement
- Mini Project & Peer Review during final week
- Q&A and Debugging Sessions for practical problem-solving
Final Deliverables
- Certificate of Completion
- End-to-End Streaming Analytics Project
- Strong understanding of Flink for real-time and batch data analytics
Course Outcomes:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand Apache Flink’s architecture, APIs, and ecosystem.
- Develop Flink applications for both batch and real-time stream processing.
- Integrate Flink with data sources like Kafka, Hadoop, and databases.
- Implement analytics and transformations using Flink DataStream and Table APIs.
- Apply Flink for use cases in data analytics and predictive processing.




