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Welcome to our Data Engineering Roadmap!

This roadmap is designed to help you navigate the world of data engineering, from the fundamentals to advanced topics. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, this roadmap will guide you through the key concepts, tools, and technologies you need to master.

• Introduction to Data Engineering
• Data Engineering Lifecycle:
  • Data Collection
  • Data Ingestion
  • Data Storage and Management
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Serving
• Overview of Data Pipelines (ETL/ELT)
• Overview of Data Modeling
• Overview of Cloud Data Engineering
• Soft Skills for Data Engineers

• Basic Linux Commands:

  • Introduction to the Command Line
  • Creating and Navigating Directories
  • Listing Files in Directories
  • Creating and Viewing Files
  • Copying and Moving Files
  • Renaming Files
  • Absolute and Relative Paths
  • Viewing and Managing Processes

• GitHub:

  • Creating a Repo
  • Cloning a Repo
  • Git Add
  • Git Commit
  • Git Push
  • Git Branch
  • Pull Request
  • Resolving Git Conflicts
  • Creating a Git README and Documenting Projects

• Introduction to Databases and Data Warehousing
• Downloading the Postgres Server Locally
• Basic Queries
  • DDL - Data Definition Language
  • DML - Data Manipulation Language
  • DCL - Data Control Language
• Joins
• SQL Data Cleaning
• Window Functions
• Introduction to Advanced SQL (Subquery & CTE)
• Creating Tables/Views (Working with Tables)
• Stored Procedures
• Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)

• Python Basics
  • Control Flow
  • Operators:
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Assignment Operators
  • Comparison Operators
  • Logical Operators
  • Identity Operators
  • Membership Operators
  • Logical Statements
    • If and Else Statements
  • Loops:
    • For Loop
    • While Loop
  • Functions:
  • Normal Functions
  • Generic Functions
    • Non-Default Arguments
    • Default Arguments
  • *Args and **kwargs
  • Modules & Packages:
    • In-Built Modules
    • Custom Modules
    • Packages
  • Errors and Exceptions
• Data Structures
• File Handling
• Data Manipulation with Pandas
• Database Interaction
• API and Web Scraping
• ETL Process and Data Pipeline
• Version Control for Projects
• Introduction to OOP

• Fundamental Concepts
• Basic Techniques for Dimension Tables
• Basic Techniques for Fact Tables
• Slowly Changing Dimensions

• DBT Fundamentals
• Understanding Jinja, Macros, and Testing in DBT
• DBT Packages
• Introduction to DBT Cloud

• Overview of Docker and Internals of Docker
• Dockerfile
• Docker Images
• Docker Containers
• Understanding Docker Volumes
• Docker Networking
• Introduction to YAML
• Docker Compose and Anchors in Docker Compose

• GitHub Actions

• Airbyte:
  • Airbyte Concepts
  • Source
  • Destination
  • Connection
  • Connector
  • Sync
  • Airbyte Architecture:
    • Architecture Overview
    • WebApp
    • API Server
    • Metadata Database
    • Temporal
    • Worker
  • Running Airbyte in Docker
  • Understanding Source Configuration
  • Understanding Destination Configuration
  • Configuring a Full Synchronization between Source and Destination:
    • S3 to Postgres Database
    • Postgres Database to Redshift
  • How Sync Works Under the Hood

• Introduction to Apache Airflow
• Airflow Concepts:
  • Workflow
  • DAG
  • Task
  • Operators
  • Dependencies
• Installation and Setup:
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Configuration
• Airflow Architecture:
  • Architecture Overview
    • WebServer
    • Metadata Database
    • Scheduler
    • Worker
    • How Airflow Works
• Creating Your First DAG
• Understanding DAG Configuration
• Understanding Task Configuration
• Understanding Airflow Variables
• Advanced DAG Concepts
• Monitoring and Debugging
• Airflow Configuration and Best Practices
• Projects

• Introduction to the Cloud
• IAM
• Data Lake
• Python Libraries to Interact with the Cloud
• Data Catalog
• Relational Database Services (RDS)
• Data Warehouse
• ETL Services
• Orchestration Services
• Compute

• Introduction to Spark
• Installation
• Spark SQL and DataFrame API
• RDDs
• Transformations and Actions
• Spark Streaming
• Structured Streaming
• Tuning and Optimization

• What terraform is
• How terraform works
• Terraform state file
• Remote state file
• Basic provisioning
  • Resource referencing
  • Data source
  • Local usage
• Modules
  • Module overview
  • Module structure
  • Create a simple resource module

• Apache Kafka Overview
• Kafka Architecture
• Kafka topic, partition and offset
• Producer and Consumer
• Consumer group and Rebalancing protocol
• Kafka Connect

• Introduction to Kubernetes