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This course covers the essentials of data engineering, from handling structured and unstructured data to designing scalable systems with Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

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29 Lessons
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • Explore the fundamentals of data engineering, including its purpose in collecting, cleaning, and organizing data for modern applications.
  • Understand how data travels through systems, focusing on data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, and the role of data pipelines.
  • Analyze structured data using SQL, including fetching, filtering, and organizing data stored in relational databases.
  • Implement data manipulation commands in SQL to maintain accurate and fresh data in pipelines for downstream analytics.
  • Design scalable data architectures using data warehouses and lakehouses, evaluating their suitability for various data types and use cases.
  • Utilize big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka to build efficient data processing workflows and real-time analytics.
KEY OUTCOMES
Build Reliable Data Pipelines

Design and implement robust data pipelines that ensure smooth data flow and accessibility across systems.

Analyze Data with SQL

Confidently write SQL queries to extract, filter, and summarize data, enabling informed decision-making in data-driven environments.

Design Scalable Data Architectures

Architect data warehouses and lakehouses that meet organizational needs for data variety and scalability, enhancing analytics capabilities.

Implement Big Data Solutions

Leverage Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka to process large datasets efficiently, supporting real-time analytics and data-driven applications.

Learning Roadmap

29 Lessons43 Quizzes

1.

Dive into Data Engineering

Dive into Data Engineering

Learn how to understand and follow the data’s journey through data engineering.

3.

Think Outside the Table

Think Outside the Table

2 Lessons

2 Lessons

Learn how to handle unstructured and semi-structured data using NoSQL and MongoDB.

4.

Explore Data Worlds!

Explore Data Worlds!

3 Lessons

3 Lessons

Learn how to design scalable data systems using warehouses, lakehouses, and OLAP cubes.

5.

Process and Manage Big Data Effectively

Process and Manage Big Data Effectively

6 Lessons

6 Lessons

Learn how to store, process, and stream massive data using Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

6.

Clean It Up

Clean It Up

6 Lessons

6 Lessons

Learn how to clean, reshape, and prepare data using pandas for reliable analysis.
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
As organizations scale their use of data, the bottleneck is infrastructure. Data engineering has become the backbone of modern data systems, enabling reliable pipelines, scalable storage, and real-time processing. Yet many professionals struggle to learn data engineering beyond isolated tools. This course is designed to give you a systems-level understanding of data engineering, so you can build and reason about data platforms with confidence. I built this course from my experience working with data-intensive systems and teaching how complex architectures evolve under real-world constraints. A consistent pattern I observed was that learners could write queries or use frameworks, but lacked a clear mental model of how data flows through systems end-to-end. This course addresses that gap by focusing on how to learn data engineering as a cohesive discipline, not just a collection of technologies. You’ll start by understanding how data moves across systems and how to work with structured data using SQL and Python. From there, you’ll handle semi-structured and unstructured data with NoSQL systems like MongoDB. The course then moves into designing scalable architectures using data warehouses and lakehouses, followed by working with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, all framed through practical system design patterns. If you want to learn data engineering in a way that prepares you to build reliable, scalable data systems, this course provides a clear and structured path forward.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Khayyam Hashmi

Computer scientist and Generative AI and Machine Learning specialist. VP of Technical Content @ educative.io.

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