Pipeline Design Patterns — ETL/ELT Pipeline Engineering Roadmap
Structuring pipelines for reliability and reuse
Steps in Pipeline Design Patterns
- Pipeline Architecture Patterns — beginner · Common shapes: linear, fan-out, fan-in and DAG-based pipelines
- Designing for Reprocessing and Backfills — beginner · Building pipelines that can safely re-run over historical data
- Modularizing Pipeline Logic — beginner · Breaking pipelines into reusable, testable components
- Data Contracts Between Pipelines — beginner · Formalizing expectations about schema and semantics between producers and consumers
- Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) — beginner · A common layered pattern for organizing pipeline stages
- Case Study: Designing a Multi-Source Ingestion Pipeline — beginner · Walking through real design decisions for a pipeline combining several sources
Part of
- ETL/ELT Pipeline Engineering roadmap — the full learning path