Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems Joe Reis and Matt Housley is an English-language printed study book about data engineering. The book covers the data engineering lifecycle and provides an overview of designing and building reliable data systems.
The book helps professionals plan and realize data technologies that meet the needs of organizations and end users. It focuses on concepts such as data generation, ingestion, orchestration, transformation, storage, governance, and implementation across different cloud environments.
In this practical overview, you will learn, among other things:
- To analyze data engineering challenges using an end-to-end lifecycle approach
- To make informed technology choices without getting lost in marketing claims
- To design and build a robust architecture that meets the requirements of downstream data consumers
- To incorporate data governance and security as an integral part of the data engineering lifecycle
This study book aligns with topics such as data capture and analysis, data mining and data science, and is suitable for software engineers, data scientists, and analysts who want to deepen their understanding of data engineering.