Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2024

Free Data Engineering course!
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This repository contains my scripts, answers & solutions to the Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2024.

This is the general top level directory structure of this repository:

├───.github
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├───01-docker-terraform
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├───02-workflow-orchestration
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├───02-workshop-1-data-ingestion
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├───03-data-warehouse
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├───04-analytics-engineering
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├───05-batch
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├───05-workshop-2-stream-processing
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├───06-streaming
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├───docs
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├───images
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├───notes
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└───scripts
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• Course overview
• Introduction to GCP
• Docker and docker-compose
• Running Postgres locally with Docker
• Setting up infrastructure on GCP with Terraform
• Preparing the environment for the course
• Homework

• Data Lake
• Workflow orchestration
• Workflow orchestration with Mage
• Homework

• Reading from apis
• Building scalable pipelines
• Normalising data
• Incremental loading
• Homework

• Data Warehouse
• BigQuery
• Partitioning and clustering
• BigQuery best practices
• Internals of BigQuery
• BigQuery Machine Learning

• Basics of analytics engineering
• dbt (data build tool)
• BigQuery and dbt
• Postgres and dbt
• dbt models
• Testing and documenting
• Deployment to the cloud and locally
• Visualizing the data with google data studio and metabase

• Batch processing
• What is Spark
• Spark Dataframes
• Spark SQL
• Internals: GroupBy and joins

• Introduction to Kafka
• Schemas (avro)
• Kafka Streams
• Kafka Connect and KSQL

Putting everything learned to practice.

• Week 1 and 2: Working on the project
• Week 3: Reviewing peers

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• Python: Versatile and widely-used programming language for web development, data science, and automation.
• PostgreSQL: Open-source relational database management system known for its extensibility.
• Docker: Platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers.
• Mage: Workflow Orchestrator that builds real-time and batch pipelines to transform data.
• BigQuery: Fully-managed, serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• GCP: Google Cloud Platform, a suite of cloud computing services.
• dbt: Analytics engineering tool for transforming data in your warehouse.
• Apache Spark: Open-source distributed computing system for big data processing.
• dltHub: An open source Python library that makes data loading easy.
• RisingWave: Stream processing platform that utilizes SQL to enhance data analysis
• Apache Kafka: Distributed event streaming platform for building real-time data pipelines.

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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024 Jonathan Areas

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