Apache Flink | A Real Time & Hands-On course on Flink (Udemy.com)
A Complete In-depth and Hands-On course on a technology better than Spark for Stream processing i.e. Apache Flink
Created by: J Garg
Last updated June 2025
What you will learn
- Learn a cutting edge, Apache's latest Stream processing framework which is much faster than Hadoop and Spark - Apache Flink.
- Learn Apache Flink fundamentals including its Architecture, Programming model, Comparison with Hadoop and Spark.
- Multiple Transform Operations of Dataset and DataStream API.
- Understand the working of each and every component of Apache Flink with Hands-On examples.
- ADVANCE topics - Windowing, Triggers, Checkpointing, State, Fault tolerance, Watermarks, Late elements and many more.
- Flink's Relational APIs - Table API, SQL API + Flink's Graph API - Gelly API
- Build and Implement 3 Real-time Business Case Studies using Flink.
- Data-sets and Flink codes used in lectures are available in resources tab.
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
- Reviews2,897#182 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length5.8 hourslonger than 51% of them
- Last updatedJune 2025more recently than 50% of them
Course Description
*** Note (2025) : All the codes are updated with latest Flink version.
Apache Flink is considered as the successor to Hadoop and Spark. It is the next generation Big data engine for Stream processing. If Hadoop represents 3G and Spark is 4G, then Apache Flink can be seen as the 5G in Big data stream processing frameworks. Unlike Spark which was not a true Stream processing framework (rather a makeshift), Apache Flink is a TRUE Streaming engine with added capacity to perform Batch, Graph, Table processing and also to run Machine Learning algorithms.
Apache Flink is the latest Big data technology and is rapidly gaining momentum in the market. It is assumed that same like Apache Spark replaced Hadoop, Flink can also replace Spark in the coming near future.
Demand of Flink in market is already swelling. Many big companies from multiple industry domains have already started using Apache Flink to process their Real-time Big data and thousands other are diving into.
What's included in the course ?
Complete Apache Flink concepts explained from Scratch to Real-Time implementation.
Each and Every Apache Flink concept is explained with a HANDS-ON Flink code of it.
Includes even those concepts, the explanation to which is not very easily available online.
For Non-Java developer's help, All Flink Java codes are explained line by line in such a way that even a non-technical person can understand.
Flink codes and Datasets used in lectures are attached in the course for your convenience.
All the codes are updated with latest Flink version.
Implement 3 Real-time Case Studies using Flink.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
2,897 Reviews
J Garg
Cloud and Data Engineering specialist with over a decade of experience in designing scalable architectures, building production-grade data pipelines.
Courses are designed with a focus on real-time implementation of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Cloud technologies in live projects. They primarily feature hands-on practice and practical exercises. Each course provides comprehensive knowledge, covering everything from the basics to advanced concepts. The lectures are structured to explain the code in a way that is easily understandable.
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Reviews
By Gaurav Kumar Gupta on 9/21/2026
The course overall has provided good understanding to get started with Flink. It covers both theory and practical side of it. The course is bit outdated but I feels that's mangable as technologies keep evolving but if we have basic understanding of tech stack we should be good. But yes if this course gets updated as well with time, this would help.
By Purnananda Maharana on 8/25/2026
Overall, a good lecture and hands-on on Apache Flink.
By Ninisbeth Segovia on 6/26/2026
So far, this course has been useful for me. I learned new things about Flink transformations and data analysis. Sometimes I needed to review the examples more than once, but overall the course was easy to follow.
By Vitalie Svet on 5/4/2026
Great course, but lack of consistency, it starts with Flink 1.5 and after uses 1.13. I wish this course to be update to Flink 2.*
By LUIS ALBERTO BAEZ on 2/17/2026
Exelente curso, aprendes desde cero. considerar que la versión nueva de flink tiene muchas diferencias.
By Venkata Naga Sai Srikanth Gollapudi on 11/30/2025
Detailed Explanation on flink concepts which I really loved
By Hristo Penchev on 3/29/2024
The course provides a wide variety of functionality but it is out of date. Much of the staff is depricated. One thing that was difficult for me was providing simple output ona text file as FileSink needs specific configuration of checkpoints. I would suggest the author to create a new course edition.
By Friedemann Zintel on 11/26/2021
The content was very good and well explained. Just two things I have to critize: 1.) got no feedback concering solution (in my case program-solution) if first assignment, even after weeks 2.) sometimes the questions for the quizes re confusing and not quite clear (e. g. "... in separate files": ??? what separate files?)
By Jose Luis Saez Martinez on 11/22/2020
Me ha gustado, pero me han faltado los subttulos en espaol, ya que mi ingls no es perfecto
By Danil Hhle on 11/15/2020
In essence it's a good course.
But it would have been excellent if the code were up to date. A lot of examples don't work, or it's just me.
If you write code for a course, make sure nothing is deprecated; because after a year or two it may fail altogether.
Since the code is 2 years old a lot of examples, when implemented now, are filled with deprecations. I don't think this is the best way.
Installation only explained on Linux.
Finally; I do recommend this course! It is well worth it. But it should've been made up-to-date
By Miguel Costa on 11/15/2020
I'll try to be not so negative. It was what I needed and I learned a few things but also some other things I'll leave feedback just as constructive as I can.
In general I did not mind the investment/time I spent on the course.
Here is the things I would have done different or would like a bit better:
I really don't like when I see a lot of projects/courses still relying on maven over gradle...
I do not understand this dependency on Linux VM or something like that. If this is needed we can rely on WSL 2.0 or just use any of the cloud providers for setting up environments.
It would be really nice to use github, gitlab or something like that to store the code.
I'm a bit pedantic but reading all that code without proper indentation really makes my eyes hurt
By Vikash Singh on 11/8/2020
The codes in Section 3 and 4 could have be explained in a better with an example of real time use case. Apart from this, I personally felt that the the code could have been written on the go instead of directly showing the already coded part. That could have made it excellent.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100












