In this course, you will explore various types of source systems, learn how they generate and update data, and troubleshoot common issues you might encounter when trying to connect to these systems in the real world. You’ll dive into the details of common ingestion patterns and implement batch and streaming pipelines. You’ll automate and orchestrate your data pipelines using infrastructure as code and pipelines as code tools. You’ll also explore AWS and open source tools for monitoring your data systems and data quality.
Source Systems, Data Ingestion, and Pipelines
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Source Systems, Data Ingestion, and Pipelines
This course is part of DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate
Instructor: Joe Reis
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What you'll learn
Gather stakeholder needs and translate them into system requirements.
Implement a batch and a streaming ingestion process on AWS to ingest data from various source systems.
Integrate aspects of security, data management, DataOps and orchestration into the data systems you build.
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Reviewed on Mar 23, 2025
best course and best projects to practice for data engineering
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Reviewed on Sep 17, 2025
This course is great, a good approach to learning and development new skills about the tools in the data engineering market
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Reviewed on Jun 8, 2025
to the point and clear information related to that how data systems work and ingestion process and pipleine that is the main crux of the data engineering
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