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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

Building data pipelines in Apache Airflow

In the previous chapter, you built your first Airflow data pipeline using a Bash and Python operator. This time, you will combine two Python operators to extract data from PostgreSQL, save it as a CSV file, then read it in and write it to an Elasticsearch index. The complete pipeline is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.6 – Airflow DAG

The preceding Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) looks very simple; it is only two tasks, and you could combine the tasks into a single function. This is not a good idea. In Section 2, Deploying Pipelines into Production, you will learn about modifying your data pipelines for production. A key tenant of production pipelines is that each task should be atomic; that is, each task should be able to stand on its own. If you had a single function that read a database and inserted the results, when it fails, you have to track down whether the query failed or the insert failed. As...