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Henry Clapton
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Thinking about becoming a Data Engineer?

Thinking about becoming a Data Engineer? Here's the roadmap to avoid pitfalls & master the essential skills for a successful career.

📊Introduction to Data Engineering

✅Overview of Data Engineering & its importance
✅Key responsibilities & skills of a Data Engineer
✅Difference between Data Engineer, Data Scientist & Data Analyst
✅Data Engineering tools & technologies

📊Programming for Data Engineering

✅Python
✅SQL
✅Java/Scala
✅Shell scripting

📊Database System & Data Modeling

✅Relational Databases: design, normalization & indexing
✅NoSQL Databases: key-value stores, document stores, column-family stores & graph database
✅Data Modeling: conceptual, logical & physical data model
✅Database Management Systems & their administration

📊Data Warehousing and ETL Processes

✅Data Warehousing concepts: OLAP vs. OLTP, star schema & snowflake schema
✅ETL: designing, developing & managing ETL processe
✅Tools & technologies: Apache Airflow, Talend, Informatica, AWS Glue
✅Data lakes & modern data warehousing solution

📊Big Data Technologies

✅Hadoop ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN
✅Apache Spark: core concepts, RDDs, DataFrames & SparkSQL
✅Kafka and real-time data processing
✅Data storage solutions: HBase, Cassandra, Amazon S3

📊Cloud Platforms & Services

✅Introduction to cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
✅Cloud data services: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure Data Lake
✅Data storage & management on the cloud
✅Serverless computing & its applications in data engineering

📊Data Pipeline Orchestration

✅Workflow orchestration: Apache Airflow, Luigi, Prefect
✅Building & scheduling data pipelines
✅Monitoring & troubleshooting data pipelines
✅Ensuring data quality & consistency

📊Data Integration & API Development

✅Data integration techniques & best practices
✅API development: RESTful APIs, GraphQL
✅Tools for API development: Flask, FastAPI, Django
✅Consuming APIs & data from external sources

📊Data Governance & Security

✅Data governance frameworks & policies
✅Data security best practices
✅Compliance with data protection regulations
✅Implementing data auditing & lineage

📊Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting

✅Query optimization techniques
✅Database tuning & indexing
✅Managing & scaling data infrastructure
✅Troubleshooting common data engineering issues

📊Project Management & Collaboration

✅Agile methodologies & best practices
✅Version control systems: Git & GitHub
✅Collaboration tools: Jira, Confluence, Slack
✅Documentation & reporting

Resources for Data Engineering
1️⃣Python: https://t.me/pythonresourcestp

2️⃣SQL: https://t.me/sqlresourcestp

3️⃣Data Engineering Resources: https://t.me/datascienceresourcestp

Data Engineering Interview Preparation Resources:

All the best 👍👍

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