This repo has all the resources you need to become an amazing data engineer!
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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
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+) | |||
| 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+) |
- 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