Data Engineering Learning Roadmap (5 Months)
Month 1: Core Programming + SQL + Linux
- Master Python: data types, loops, functions, file handling, error handling
- Learn pandas for data manipulation
- SQL: joins, subqueries, aggregate functions, window functions
- Linux basics: navigation, permissions, bash scripting
- Tools: Jupyter, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Bash
Data Engineering Learning Roadmap (5 Months)
Month 2: Data Warehousing + ETL + Airflow
- Data modeling concepts: Star/Snowflake schema, normalization
- Learn data warehouses: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift
- Build ETL pipelines using Python and dbt
- Orchestrate workflows with Apache Airflow
- Tools: dbt, Airflow, PostgreSQL/Snowflake
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Month 3: Big Data Tools + Real-time Streaming
- Understand Hadoop ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce
- Work with Apache Spark: PySpark, Spark SQL, RDD/DataFrames
- Learn Apache Kafka: streaming basics, producers/consumers
- Tools: Spark, Kafka, Hive
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Month 4: Cloud Platforms + Data Lakes
- Use cloud storage: S3, GCS, Azure Blob
- Explore cloud-native data tools:
- AWS: S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift
- GCP: BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer
- Azure: Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks
- Build cloud-based pipelines
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Month 5: Governance + CI/CD + Capstone Project
- Learn data cataloging: AWS Glue Catalog, Apache Atlas
- Implement data validation: Great Expectations
- Automate with CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
- Final project: end-to-end data pipeline