Chapter 1: What is Data Engineering?

Welcome to Data Engineering with Python. While data engineering is not a new field, it seems to have stepped out from the background recently and started to take center stage. This book will introduce you to the field of data engineering. You will learn about the tools and techniques employed by data engineers and you will learn how to combine them to build data pipelines. After completing this book, you will be able to connect to multiple data sources, extract the data, transform it, and load it into new locations. You will be able to build your own data engineering infrastructure, including clustering applications to increase their capacity to process data.

In this chapter, you will learn about the roles ...

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