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Data Engineering with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse

By : Manoj Kukreja
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Data Engineering with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse

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By: Manoj Kukreja

Overview of this book

In the world of ever-changing data and schemas, it is important to build data pipelines that can auto-adjust to changes. This book will help you build scalable data platforms that managers, data scientists, and data analysts can rely on. Starting with an introduction to data engineering, along with its key concepts and architectures, this book will show you how to use Microsoft Azure Cloud services effectively for data engineering. You'll cover data lake design patterns and the different stages through which the data needs to flow in a typical data lake. Once you've explored the main features of Delta Lake to build data lakes with fast performance and governance in mind, you'll advance to implementing the lambda architecture using Delta Lake. Packed with practical examples and code snippets, this book takes you through real-world examples based on production scenarios faced by the author in his 10 years of experience working with big data. Finally, you'll cover data lake deployment strategies that play an important role in provisioning the cloud resources and deploying the data pipelines in a repeatable and continuous way. By the end of this data engineering book, you'll know how to effectively deal with ever-changing data and create scalable data pipelines to streamline data science, ML, and artificial intelligence (AI) tasks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Modern Data Engineering and Tools
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Section 2: Data Pipelines and Stages of Data Engineering
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Section 3: Data Engineering Challenges and Effective Deployment Strategies

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the data pipeline life cycle. Hopefully, I was able to highlight the fact that the discovery sessions and pipeline design are more important than the development itself. Similarly, it is very important to keep the stakeholders in the loop with everything that is happening. It is important that data engineers conduct regular checkpoints, demonstrations, and code review sessions with the stakeholders.

It is time to put the cloud services that we learned about during Chapter 3, Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure, to work. In the next chapter, we will start to use the Azure services and highlight the various stages of data engineering.