About
A free NiFi course for people who need to understand real flows, not just memorize processor names.
NiFi Factory is a free course for data engineers who need to work with Apache NiFi in the real world. It is for the moment when someone hands you a running flow and you need to understand what is happening without pretending the system is simpler than it is.
The lessons focus on the patterns that come up in production: pulling from filesystems and APIs, routing records, retrying failures, securing movement between systems, and knowing what to look at when a flow is misbehaving.
The whole course is public. You can open a chapter, read, practise, and come back later with your progress saved in the browser.
Highlights
- The course is open by default: no account, no paywall, no email capture.
- Lessons use diagrams, exercises, quizzes, and capstones so it feels like a course rather than a reference dump.
- The processor reference is there when you need details, but the main course stays focused on practical flow patterns.
- It runs as a static site, which keeps it fast and cheap to maintain.
Also worth noting
- The live site includes the homepage, chapter index, lesson reader, mobile reader, and processor reference.
- The curriculum is organized around jobs people actually do with NiFi: ingest, records, reliability, sinks, security, and operations.
- Progress is local to the browser rather than tied to an account.