In this course, you will be introduced to the data engineering lifecycle, from data generation in source systems, to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving data to downstream stakeholders. You’ll study the key undercurrents that affect all stages of the lifecycle, and start developing a framework for how to think like a data engineer. To gain hands-on practice, you’ll gather stakeholder needs, translate those needs into system requirements, and choose tools and technologies to build systems that provide business value. By the end of this course you’ll be spinning up batch and streaming data pipelines to serve product recommendations on the AWS cloud!
Introduction to Data Engineering
Introduction to Data Engineering
This course is part of DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate
Instructor: Joe Reis
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the data engineering lifecycle and its undercurrents
Gather stakeholder needs and translate them into system requirements
Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines on AWS
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There are 4 modules in this course
Gain a high-level overview of the data engineering lifecycle and key undercurrents to understand how data engineers add business value to organizations. Start developing a mental framework for thinking like a data engineer, starting with gathering stakeholder needs and translating them into system requirements. Learn the basics of working on the cloud from an AWS expert.
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18 videos10 readings1 assignment1 app item
Dive deeper into the stages of the data engineering lifecycle and its key undercurrents. Build an end-to-end data pipeline on AWS that encompasses all the stages of the data engineering lifecycle.
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20 videos3 readings1 assignment1 programming assignment
Define data architecture and how it fits within the larger enterprise architecture. Examine the principles of good data architecture and how these principles inform tools and technology choices. Evaluate and optimize the security, performance, reliability, cost-efficiency, and scalability of a web application hosted on AWS.
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22 videos2 readings1 assignment1 programming assignment
Practice gathering stakeholder needs and translating them into system requirements. Choose the appropriate tools and technologies based on the system requirements, then build an end-to-end data system that includes a batch and a streaming component to train a product recommendation system and serves product recommendations to a sales platform.
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17 videos5 readings3 assignments1 programming assignment
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YZ
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Reviewed on Sep 21, 2024
Good theory introduction, and looking forward to the hands-on practices in the next courses.
JF
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Reviewed on Oct 26, 2024
High level overview is great! But I wish the lab should involve hands-on application, and not just following instructions
KD
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Reviewed on Oct 13, 2024
This course fulfills what it says it will give - make you think like a data engineer. Has exceeded my expectations. And so far, the BEST data engineering course out there.
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