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Data Engineering Overview

5 min read Quiz at the end
Data engineering builds reliable data pipelines from ingestion to storage, transformation, and delivery.

What is Data Engineering?

Data engineering is the discipline of designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and pipelines that collect, store, transform, and deliver data reliably at scale.

RoleResponsibilityTools
Data EngineerBuild pipelines, manage data infrastructureSpark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka
Data AnalystQuery and visualise dataSQL, Tableau, Looker
Data ScientistBuild ML modelsPython, scikit-learn, PyTorch
MLOps EngineerDeploy and monitor modelsMLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker
# Data Engineering Stack
Ingestion:     Kafka, Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium
Storage:       S3, GCS, ADLS, HDFS
Processing:    Apache Spark, Flink, dbt
Orchestration: Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
Warehouse:     Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, ClickHouse
Catalog:       Apache Atlas, DataHub, Amundsen
Quality:       Great Expectations, Soda, Monte Carlo
Topic Quiz · 1 questions

Test your understanding before moving on

1. What is the key difference between ETL and ELT?
💡 ELT loads raw data into a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery) and transforms there using SQL/dbt.