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Data Engineering with Python

By : Paul Crickard
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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

Chapter 4: Working with Databases

In the previous chapter, you learned how to read and write text files. Reading log files or other text files from a data lake and moving them into a database or data warehouse is a common task for data engineers. In this chapter, you will use the skills you gained working with text files and learn how to move that data into a database. This chapter will also teach you how to extract data from relational and NoSQL databases. By the end of this chapter, you will have the skills needed to work with databases using Python, NiFi, and Airflow. It is more than likely that most of your data pipelines will end with a database and very likely that they will start with one as well. With these skills, you will be able to build data pipelines that can extract and load, as well as start and finish, with both relational and NoSQL databases.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Inserting and extracting relational data in...