In this course, you will be introduced to the data engineering lifecycle, from data generation in source systems, to ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving data to downstream stakeholders. You’ll study the key undercurrents that affect all stages of the lifecycle, and start developing a framework for how to think like a data engineer. To gain hands-on practice, you’ll gather stakeholder needs, translate those needs into system requirements, and choose tools and technologies to build systems that provide business value. By the end of this course you’ll be spinning up batch and streaming data pipelines to serve product recommendations on the AWS cloud!
Introduction to Data Engineering
Introduction to Data Engineering
This course is part of DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate
Instructor: Joe Reis
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the data engineering lifecycle and its undercurrents
Gather stakeholder needs and translate them into system requirements
Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines on AWS
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This course is part of the DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate
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VK
Reviewed on Jun 21, 2025
Learning about how you think and work as a data engineer is fantastic. Joe, Morgan, and the other instructors have done very well. Thanks for giving this course?
CB
Reviewed on Sep 25, 2024
Awsome course Joe goes over details of the fundamentals of data engineering and i learn many things i didn't expect in this course. I can't wait to start the second course.
KD
Reviewed on Oct 13, 2024
This course fulfills what it says it will give - make you think like a data engineer. Has exceeded my expectations. And so far, the BEST data engineering course out there.
