The Data Engineering Handbook
This repo has all the resources you need to become an amazing data engineer!
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Getting started
If you are new to data engineering, start by following this 2024 breaking into data engineering roadmap
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For more applied learning:
- Check out the projects section for more hands-on examples!
- Check out the interviews section for more advice on how to pass data engineering interviews!
- Check out the books section for a list of high quality data engineering books
- Check out the communities section for a list of high quality data engineering communities to join
- Check out the newsletter section to learn via email
Resources
Great list of over 25 books
Top 3 must read books are:
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Designing Machine Learning Systems
Top must-join communities for DE:
Top must-join communities for ML:
Companies:
- Orchestration
- Data Lake / Cloud
- Data Warehouse
- Data Quality
- Education Companies
- Analytics / Visualization
- Data Integration
- Semantic Layers
- Modern OLAP
- LLM application library
- Real-Time Data
- Data Lineage
Data Engineering blogs of companies:
- Netflix
- Uber
- Databricks
- Airbnb
- Amazon AWS Blog
- Microsoft Data Architecture Blogs
- Microsoft Fabric Blog
- Oracle
- Meta
- Onehouse
- Estuary Blog
Data Engineering Whitepapers:
- A Five-Layered Business Intelligence Architecture
- Lakehouse:A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics
- Big Data Quality: A Data Quality Profiling Model
- The Data Lakehouse: Data Warehousing and More
- Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets
- The Google File System
- Building a Universal Data Lakehouse
- XTable in Action: Seamless Interoperability in Data Lakes
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- Tidy Data
- Data Engineering Whitepapers
Social Media Accounts
Here's the mostly comprehensive list of data engineering creators: (You have to have at least 5k followers somewhere to be added!)
YouTube
| Name | YouTube Channel | Follower Count |
|---|---|---|
| ByteByteGo | ByteByteGo | 1,000,000+ |
| Data with Baraa | Data with Baraa | 195,000+ |
| Zach Wilson | Data with Zach | 150,000+ |
| Shashank Mishra | E-learning Bridge | 100,000+ |
| Seattle Data Guy | Seattle Data Guy | 100,000+ |
| TrendyTech | TrendyTech | 100,000+ |
| Darshil Parmar | Darshil Parmar | 100,000+ |
| Andreas Kretz | Andreas Kretz | 100,000+ |
| The Ravit Show | The Ravit Show | 100,000+ |
| Guy in a Cube | Guy in a Cube | 100,000+ |
| Adam Marczak | Adam Marczak | 100,000+ |
| nullQueries | nullQueries | 100,000+ |
| TECHTFQ by Thoufiq | TECHTFQ by Thoufiq | 100,000+ |
| SQLBI | SQLBI | 100,000+ |
| Alex Freberg | Alex The Analyst | 100,000+ |
| Ankur Ranjan | Big Data Show | 100,000+ |
| Prashanth Kumar Pandey | ScholarNest | 77,000+ |
| ITVersity | ITVersity | 67,000+ |
| Soumil Shah | Soumil Shah | 50,000 |
| Ansh Lamba | Ansh Lamba | 18,000+ |
| Azure Lib | Azure Lib | 10,000+ |
| Advancing Analytics | Advancing Analytics | 10,000+ |
| Kahan Data Solutions | Kahan Data Solutions | 10,000+ |
| Ankit Bansal | Ankit Bansal | 10,000+ |
| Mr. K Talks Tech | Mr. K Talks Tech | 10,000+ |
| Samuel Focht | Python Basics | 10,000+ |
| Mehdi Ouazza | Mehdio DataTV | 3,000+ |
| Alex Merced | Alex Merced Data | N/A |
| John Kutay | John Kutay | N/A |
| Emil Kaminski | Databricks For Professionals | 5,000+ |
| Name | LinkedIn Profile | Follower Count |
|---|---|---|
| Zach Wilson | Zach Wilson | 400,000+ |
| Chip Huyen | Chip Huyen | 250,000+ |
| Shashank Mishra | Shashank Mishra | 100,000+ |
| Seattle Data Guy | Ben Rogojan | 100,000+ |
| TrendyTech | Sumit Mittal | 100,000+ |
| Darshil Parmar | Darshil Parmar | 100,000+ |
| Andreas Kretz | Andreas Kretz | 100,000+ |
| ByteByteGo (Alex Xu) | Alex Xu | 100,000+ |
| Azure Lib (Deepak Goyal) | Deepak Goyal | 100,000+ |
| Alex Freberg | Alex Freberg | 100,000+ |
| SQLBI (Marco Russo) | Marco Russo | 50,000+ |
| Ankit Bansal | Ankit Bansal | 50,000+ |
| Marc Lamberti | Marc Lamberti | 50,000+ |
| Ankur Ranjan | Ankur Ranjan | 48,000+ |
| ITVersity (Durga Gadiraju) | Durga Gadiraju | 48,000+ |
| Prashanth Kumar Pandey | Prashanth Kumar Pandey | 37,000+ |
| Alex Merced | Alex Merced | 30,000+ |
| Ijaz Ali | Ijaz Ali | 24,000+ |
| Mehdi Ouazza | Mehdi Ouazza | 20,000+ |
| Ananth Packkildurai | Ananth Packkildurai | 18,000+ |
| Ansh Lamba | Ansh Lamba | 13,000+ |
| Manojkumar Vadivel | Manojkumar Vadivel | 12,000+ |
| Advancing Analytics | Simon Whiteley | 10,000+ |
| Li Yin | Li Yin | 10,000+ |
| Jaco van Gelder | Jaco van Gelder | 10,000+ |
| Joseph Machado | Joseph Machado | 10,000+ |
| Eric Roby | Eric Roby | 10,000+ |
| Simon Späti | Simon Späti | 10,000+ |
| Constantin Lungu | Constantin Lungu | 10,000+ |
| Lakshmi Sontenam | Lakshmi Sontenam | 9,500+ |
| Dani Pálma | Daniel Pálma | 9,000+ |
| Soumil Shah | Soumil Shah | 8,000+ |
| Arnaud Milleker | Arnaud Milleker | 7,000+ |
| Dimitri Visnadi | Dimitri Visnadi | 7,000+ |
| Lenny | Lenny A | 6,000+ |
| Dipankar Mazumdar | Dipankar Mazumdar | 5,000+ |
| Daniel Ciocirlan | Daniel Ciocirlan | 5,000+ |
| Hugo Lu | Hugo Lu | 5,000+ |
| Tobias Macey | Tobias Macey | 5,000+ |
| Marcos Ortiz | Marcos Ortiz | 5,000+ |
| Julien Hurault | Julien Hurault | 5,000+ |
| John Kutay | John Kutay | 5,000+ |
| Hassaan Akbar | Hassaan Akbar | 5,000+ |
| Subhankar | Subhankar | 5,000+ |
| Nitin | Nitin | N/A |
| Hassaan | Hassaan | 5000+ |
| Javier de la Torre | Javier | 5000+ |
X/Twitter
| Name | X/Twitter Profile | Follower Count |
|---|---|---|
| ByteByteGo | alexxubyte | 100,000+ |
| Dan Kornas | @dankornas | 66,000+ |
| Zach Wilson | EcZachly | 30,000+ |
| Seattle Data Guy | SeattleDataGuy | 10,000+ |
| SQLBI | marcorus | 10,000+ |
| Joseph Machado | startdataeng | 5,000+ |
| Alex Merced | @amdatalakehouse | N/A |
| John Kutay | @JohnKutay | N/A |
| Mehdi Ouazza | mehd_io | N/A |
| Name | Instagram Profile | Follower Count |
|---|---|---|
| Sundas Khalid | sundaskhalidd | 300,000+ |
| Zach Wilson | eczachly | 150,000+ |
| Andreas Kretz | learndataengineering | 5,000+ |
| Alex Merced | @alexmercedcoder | N/A |
TikTok
| Name | TikTok Profile | Follower Count |
|---|---|---|
| Zach Wilson | @eczachly | 70,000+ |
| Alex Freberg | @alex_the_analyst | 10,000+ |
| Mehdi Ouazza | @mehdio_datatv | N/A |
Great Podcasts
- The Data Engineering Show
- Data Engineering Podcast
- DataTopics
- The Data Engineering Side Of Data
- DataWare
- The Data Coffee Break Podcast
- The Datastack show
- Intricity101 Data Sharks Podcast
- Drill to Detail with Mark Rittman
- Analytics Power Hour
- Catalog & cocktails
- Datatalks
- Data Brew by Databricks
- The Data Cloud Podcast by Snowflake
- What's New in Data
- Open||Source||Data by Datastax
- Streaming Audio by confluent
- The Data Scientist Show
- MLOps.community
- Monday Morning Data Chat
- The Data Chief
- The Joe Reis Show
- Data Bytes
- Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
Great list of 20+ newsletters
Top must follow newsletters for data engineering:
- DataEngineer.io Newsletter
- Joe Reis
- Start Data Engineering
- Data Engineering Weekly
- Data Engineer Things
Glossaries:
- Data Engineering Vault
- Airbyte Data Glossary
- Data Engineering Wiki by Reddit
- Seconda Glossary
- Glossary Databricks
- Airtable Glossary
- Data Engineering Glossary by Dagster
Design Patterns
- Cumulative Table Design
- Microbatch Deduplication
- The Little Book of Pipelines
- Data Developer Platform
Courses / Academies
- DataExpert.io course use code HANDBOOK10 for a discount!
- LearnDataEngineering.com
- Technical Freelancer Academy Use code zwtech for a discount!
- IBM Data Engineering for Everyone
- PrepNPlaced Open Learning - 153 hours of free SQL, Python, PySpark, and Power BI lessons with MCQs and a free skill test
- Qwiklabs
- DataCamp
- Udemy Courses from Shruti Mantri
- Rock the JVM teaches Spark (in Scala), Flink and others
- Data Engineering Zoomcamp by DataTalksClub
- Efficient Data Processing in Spark
- Scaler
- DataTeams - Data Engingeer hiring platform
- Udemy Courses from Daniel Blanco
- DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate
Certifications Courses
- Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer
- Databricks - Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark
- Databricks - Data Engineer Associate
- Databricks - Data Engineer Professional
- Microsoft DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft DP-600: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Microsoft DP-700: Fabric Data Engineer Associate
- AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
