Apache Pulsar geo-replication for industrial IoT — segment storage on BookKeeper, async vs sync replication, multi-region clusters, and a 2026 reference architecture for global telemetry.
Apache Polaris vs Project Nessie vs Unity Catalog OSS — branching, multi-engine federation, AuthN/AuthZ, and the right Iceberg catalog for production lakehouses in 2026.
Crossplane Composition Functions (v1.14+) deep dive — Pipeline Mode, KCL/Python/Go runtimes, building self-service IDP abstractions, and when functions beat raw patches.
AsyncAPI 3.0 architecture — channels, operations, and messages for MQTT, Kafka, AMQP, and WebSocket APIs. Full example spec, code-gen, and governance pattern for 2026.
Saga pattern in production — choreography vs orchestration, compensating actions, idempotency, saga log durability, and how Temporal and Camunda reshape sagas in 2026.
Idempotency keys, conditional requests, dedup stores, and natural idempotent operations — the production blueprint for safely retryable APIs in 2026 at scale.
Decision matrix for Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, and Kafka Streams — latency, state management, exactly-once, operational cost, and when each wins in 2026.
ADR-style comparison of Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi for production lakehouses — consequences, trade-offs, migration paths, and a decision rubric for 2026.