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Data Engineering with Python

By : Paul Crickard
Book Image

Data Engineering with Python

By: Paul Crickard

Overview of this book

Data engineering provides the foundation for data science and analytics, and forms an important part of all businesses. This book will help you to explore various tools and methods that are used for understanding the data engineering process using Python. The book will show you how to tackle challenges commonly faced in different aspects of data engineering. You’ll start with an introduction to the basics of data engineering, along with the technologies and frameworks required to build data pipelines to work with large datasets. You’ll learn how to transform and clean data and perform analytics to get the most out of your data. As you advance, you'll discover how to work with big data of varying complexity and production databases, and build data pipelines. Using real-world examples, you’ll build architectures on which you’ll learn how to deploy data pipelines. By the end of this Python book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of data modeling techniques, and will be able to confidently build data engineering pipelines for tracking data, running quality checks, and making necessary changes in production.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Building Data Pipelines – Extract Transform, and Load
8
Section 2:Deploying Data Pipelines in Production
14
Section 3:Beyond Batch – Building Real-Time Data Pipelines

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the basics of Apache Kafka – from what is a log and how Kafka uses it, to partitions, producers, and consumers. You learned how Apache NiFi can create producers and consumers with a single processor. The chapter took a quick detour to explain how streaming data is unbounded and how time and windowing work with streams. These are important considerations when working with streaming data and can result in errors if you assume you have all the data at one time. Lastly, you learned how to use Confluent Python Kafka to write basic producers and consumers in Python.

Equipped with these skills, the next chapter will show you how to build a real-time data pipeline.