Building Automated Data Pipelines with Spark,dbt,and Airflow
Completed by Rayan Abutawil
April 5, 2026
8 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Build end-to-end data pipelines that automatically ingest from databases, APIs, and streams using Spark, dbt, and Airflow tools.
Design data models with historical tracking using SCD Type 2 patterns to preserve complete change history for analytics.
Create automated workflows with intelligent retry logic, SLA monitoring, and parameterization for production reliability.
Optimize Spark job performance using partitioning and caching strategies to achieve 30%+ runtime improvements.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Data Processing
- Category: Data Warehousing
- Category: Apache Spark
- Category: Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
- Category: Diagram Design
- Category: Data Architecture
- Category: Apache Airflow
- Category: Extract, Transform, Load
- Category: Service Level
- Category: Enterprise Security
- Category: Dataflow
- Category: Data Modeling
