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AWS Certified Data Engineer Study Guide
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AWS Certified Data Engineer Study Guide

by Syed Humair, Chenjerai Gumbo, Adam Gatt, Asif Abbasi, Lakshmi Nair
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 22m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 1Streaming and Batch Data Ingestion

THE AWS CERTIFIED DATA ENGINEER – ASSOCIATE EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

  • Domain 1: Data Ingestion and Transformation
    • Task 1.1 Perform data ingestion

The Evolution of Application Architectures and Data Stores

In order to understand batch and streaming data ingestion, we need to understand how data architectures have evolved over time and why the exam focuses on certain topics. To understand the evolution of data architecture, we should look at the applications that are typically the data source for the data engineering pipelines and understand how the application architectures have evolved (see Figure 1.1).

FIGURE 1.1 The evolution ...

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