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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Data Engineering with Rust by Duke University

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About the Course

Are you a data engineer, software developer, or a tech enthusiast with a basic understanding of Rust, seeking to enhance your skills and dive deep into the realm of data engineering with Rust? Or are you a professional from another programming language background, aiming to explore the efficiency, safety, and concurrency features of Rust for data engineering tasks? If so, this course is designed for you. While a fundamental knowledge of Rust is expected, you should ideally be comfortable with the basics of data structures and algorithms, and have a working understanding of databases and data processing. Familiarity with SQL, the command line, and version control with git is advantageous. This four-week course focuses on leveraging Rust to create efficient, safe, and concurrent data processing systems. The journey begins with a deep dive into Rust's data structures and collections, followed by exploring Rust's safety and security features in the context of data engineering. In the subsequent week, you'll explore libraries and tools specific to data engineering like Diesel, async, Polars, and Apache Arrow, and learn to interface with data processing systems, REST, gRPC protocols, and AWS SDK for cloud-based data operations. The final week focuses on designing and implementing full-fledged data processing systems using Rust. By the end of this course, you will be well-equipped to use Rust for handling large-scale data engineering tasks, solving real-world problems with efficiency and speed. The hands-on labs and projects throughout this course will ensure you gain practical experience, putting your knowledge into action. This course is your gateway to mastering data engineering with Rust, preparing you for the next level in your data engineering journey....

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RT

Aug 30, 2024

Love how the content is not watered down. Videos are very efficient at conveying information.

HG

Feb 3, 2024

This course helps me to up skill during my career break

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By Lazar J

Sep 17, 2025

1. half of the course is dedicated to a PAID tools, why spend so much time explaining how to use codespace or copilot, the course is about RUST language, not some MS tools... 2. the lectures are pointless, they explain what some code does from the high level, like I was told about LOTR book in 5 minute video, zero dive in, I have completed the course but I learned nothing that I didn't know before. If I wasn't learn borrowing and ownership before, I would knew nothing from the course. This course is pointless, 0 practice, very little is explained. Please redo the course or remove it... for beginners it is pointless and not worth of time... Unfortunately, I cannot vote with 0 stars...

By Jeni

Oct 1, 2025

This course was very poorly organized. I feel quite lucky that I have been a data engineer and I understand the nature of the work and the concepts. The content had little to do with the work itself. Where knowledge of data engineering was required, I felt glad that I had strong background or I would have been quite lost. I am also grateful for the new Coursera Coach feature. That feature also made the course salvageable.

By Tim B

Aug 29, 2025

First course in a long time I've just abandoned. The lectures feel disconnected, and the grading quizzes superficial. It focuses more on a specific suite of dev, cloud and AI tooling than on Rust, often feeling like a thinly veiled advert for the same. Rust itself is dealt with very lightly, and data engineering is included by light introduction and self-directed reading with no discussion.