From the course: Introduction to Modern Data Engineering with Snowflake
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From the course: Introduction to Modern Data Engineering with Snowflake
Modern data engineering with snowflake
A few years back, Snowflake published Cloud Data Engineering for Dummies, Snowflake Special Edition. Among many of the useful insights in it, it did a great job of capturing the essence of data engineering and what data engineers do. It states a couple of things that I think are worth calling out here. "Data engineering isn't something you do once. It's an ongoing practice that involves collecting, preparing, transforming, and delivering data. Data engineers oversee the ingestion, transformation, delivery, and movement of data throughout every part of the organization." Did you notice any common words or phrases among these two sentences? If so, you might've noticed the following terms: collecting or ingesting, transforming, and delivery. The concepts of data ingestion, data transformation, and data delivery are core to data pipelines. The practice of applying these concepts in concert to build data pipelines is known as data engineering. In this course, we'll use these three core…
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