This repo has all the resources you need to become an amazing data engineer!
If you are new to data engineering, start by following this 2024 breaking into data engineering roadmap
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For more applied learning:
- Check out the projects section for more hands-on examples!
- Check out the interviews section for more advice on how to pass data engineering interviews!
- Check out the books section for a list of high quality data engineering books
- Check out the communities section for a list of high quality data engineering communities to join
- Check out the newsletter section to learn via email
Great list of over 25 books
Top 3 must read books are:
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Designing Machine Learning Systems
Top must-join communities for DE:
Top must-join communities for ML:
- Orchestration
- Data Lake / Cloud
- Data Warehouse
- Data Quality
- Education Companies
- Analytics / Visualization
- Data Integration
- Modern OLAP
- LLM application library
- Real-Time Data
- Netflix
- Uber
- Databricks
- Airbnb
- Amazon AWS Blog
- Microsoft Data Architecture Blogs
- Microsoft Fabric Blog
- Oracle
- Meta
- Onehouse
- A Five-Layered Business Intelligence Architecture
- Lakehouse:A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics
- Big Data Quality: A Data Quality Profiling Model
- The Data Lakehouse: Data Warehousing and More
- Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets
- The Google File System
- Building a Universal Data Lakehouse
- XTable in Action: Seamless Interoperability in Data Lakes
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- Tidy Data
Here's the mostly comprehensive list of data engineering creators: (You have to have at least 5k followers somewhere to be added!)
| Name |  YouTube |
 |
 X/Twitter |
 |
 TikTok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Wilson | Data with Zach (70k+) | Zach Wilson (400k+) | EcZachly (30k+) | eczachly (150k+) | @eczachly (70k+) |
| Shashank Mishra | E-learning Bridge (100k+) | Shashank Mishra (100k+) | |||
| Seattle Data Guy | Seattle Data Guy (100k+) | Ben Rogojan (100k+) | SeattleDataGuy (10k+) | ||
| TrendyTech | TrendyTech (100k+) | Sumit Mittal (100k+) | |||
| Darshil Parmar | Darshil Parmar (100k+) | Darshil Parmar (100k+) | |||
| Andreas Kretz | Andreas Kretz (100k+) | Andreas Kretz (100k+) | learndataengineering (5k+) | ||
| ByteByteGo | ByteByteGo (1m+) | Alex Xu (100k+) | alexxubyte (100k+) | ||
| The Ravit Show | The Ravit Show (100k+) | ||||
| Guy in a Cube | Guy in a Cube (100k+) | ||||
| Adam Marczak | Adam Marczak (100k+) | ||||
| nullQueries | nullQueries (100k+) | ||||
| TECHTFQ by Thoufiq | TECHTFQ by Thoufiq (100k+) | ||||
| SQLBI | SQLBI (100k+) | Marco Russo (50k+) | marcorus (10k+) | ||
| Azure Lib | Azure Lib (10k+) | Deepak Goyal (100k+) | |||
| Prashanth Kumar Pandey | ScholarNest (77k+) | Prashanth Kumar Pandey (37K+) | |||
| Advancing Analytics | Advancing Analytics (10k+) | Simon Whiteley (10k+) | |||
| Kahan Data Solutions | Kahan Data Solutions (10k+) | ||||
| Ankit Bansal | Ankit Bansal (10k+) | Ankit Bansal (50k+) | |||
| Mr. K Talks Tech | Mr. K Talks Tech (10k+) | ||||
| Li Yin | Li Yin (10k+) | ||||
| Jaco van Gelder | Jaco van Gelder (10k+) | ||||
| Joseph Machado | Joseph Machado (10k+) | startdataeng (5k+) | |||
| Eric Roby | Eric Roby (10k+) | ||||
| Simon Späti | Simon Späti (10k+) | ||||
| Dipankar Mazumdar | Dipankar Mazumdar (5k+) | ||||
| Daniel Ciocirlan | Daniel Ciocirlan (5k+) | ||||
| Hugo Lu | Hugo Lu (5k+) | ||||
| Tobias Macey | Tobias Macey (5k+) | ||||
| Marcos Ortiz | Marcos Ortiz (5k+) | ||||
| Julien Hurault | Julien Hurault (5k+) | ||||
| Alex Freberg | Alex The Analyst (100k+) | Alex Freberg (100k+) | @alex_the_analyst (10k+) | ||
| Marc Lamberti | Marc Lamberti (50k+) | ||||
| Chip Huyen | Chip Huyen (250k+) | ||||
| Alex Merced | Alex Merced Data | Alex Merced (30k+) | @amdatalakehouse | @alexmercedcoder | |
| John Kutay | John Kutay | John Kutay (5k+) | @JohnKutay | ||
| Lakshmi Sontenam | Lakshmi Sontenam (9.5k+) | ||||
| Hassaan Akbar | Hassaan Akbar (5k+) | ||||
| Samuel Focht | Python Basics (10k+) | ||||
| Constantin Lungu | Constantin Lungu (10k+) | ||||
| Ijaz Ali | Ijaz Ali (24K+) | ||||
| Subhankar | Subhankar (5k+) | ||||
| Ankur Ranjan | Big Data Show (100k+) | Ankur Ranjan (48k+) | |||
| Lenny | Lenny A (6k+) | ||||
| Mehdi Ouazza | Mehdio DataTV (3k+) | Mehdi Ouazza (20k+) | mehd_io | @mehdio_datatv | |
| ITVersity | ITVersity (67k+) | Durga Gadiraju (48k+) | |||
| Arnaud Milleker | Arnaud Milleker (7k+) | ||||
| Soumil Shah | [Soumil Shah] (https://www.youtube.com/@SoumilShah) (50k) | Soumil Shah (8k+) | |||
| Ananth Packkildurai | Ananth Packkildurai (18k+) |
- The Data Engineering Show
- Data Engineering Podcast
- DataTopics
- The Data Engineering Side Of Data
- DataWare
- The Data Coffee Break Podcast
- The Datastack show
- Intricity101 Data Sharks Podcast
- Drill to Detail with Mark Rittman
- Analytics Power Hour
- Catalog & cocktails
- Datatalks
- Data Brew by Databricks
- The Data Cloud Podcast by Snowflake
- What's New in Data
- Open||Source||Data by Datastax
- Streaming Audio by confluent
- The Data Scientist Show
- MLOps.community
- Monday Morning Data Chat
- The Data Chief
Great list of 20+ newsletters
Top must follow newsletters for data engineering:
- Data Engineering Vault
- Airbyte Data Glossary
- Data Engineering Wiki by Reddit
- Seconda Glossary
- Glossary Databricks
- Airtable Glossary
- Data Engineering Glossary by Dagster
- Cumulative Table Design
- Microbatch Deduplication
- The Little Book of Pipelines
- Data Developer Platform
- DataExpert.io course use code HANDBOOK10 for a discount!
- LearnDataEngineering.com
- Technical Freelancer Academy Use code zwtech for a discount!
- IBM Data Engineering for Everyone
- Qwiklabs
- DataCamp
- Udemy Courses from Shruti Mantri
- Rock the JVM teaches Spark (in Scala), Flink and others
- Data Engineering Zoomcamp by DataTalksClub
- Efficient Data Processing in Spark
- Scaler
- DataTeams - Data Engingeer hiring platform
- Udemy Courses from Daniel Blanco
- Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer
- Databricks - Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark
- Databricks - Data Engineer Associate
- Databricks - Data Engineer Professional
- Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate