ETL and Data Pipelines Basics — Roadmap Step & Resources
Extracting, transforming and loading data from client systems into a usable form
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Before this step
Mini projects
- Build a pipeline that cleans and loads a messy CSV export
Study resources
- ETL vs. ELT (Article) — IBM's own official comparison of ETL and ELT data pipeline patterns.
- Apache Airflow Tutorial (Video) — A practical introduction to orchestrating data pipelines, a common FDE tool.
- Apache Airflow Documentation (Article) — The official Apache Airflow documentation, the most widely used workflow orchestrator.
Part of
- Data Engineering for FDEs — section
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) roadmap — the full learning path