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Accelerating Data Pipeline Development
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Accelerating Data Pipeline Development

by Josh Hall
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
136 pages
3h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Getting Started in Coalesce

Just like the foundation that supports a house, Coalesce has foundational components that support your development of data products. This chapter will lay the groundwork for the rest of this guide, ensuring you have the tools you need to build end-to-end data pipelines. In it, you will learn about projects and workspaces, which are the core of the development experience in Coalesce. You will discover how to connect Coalesce to your data platform and make your data ready for development. You’ll also see how you can work with the rest of your data team to build pipelines for all your data transformation needs.

Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to get started developing your data in Coalesce and have a foundational understanding for the rest of the topics discussed in this guide. Let’s start by learning about the user interface.

The User Interface

Coalesce provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables you to develop your data while giving you the flexibility to write Structured Query Language (SQL). The interface is divided into different segments that provide support for different functions throughout the data development lifecycle. These segments include:

  • The projects page

  • The build interface

  • The deploy interface

  • The docs interface

You also have the ability to manage your Coalesce organization and users from the user menu interface using Organization and User settings. In this section, you’ll explore each ...

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