Data Engineering

A book-shaped table of contents for data engineering: foundations and lifecycle, data modeling, storage systems, ingestion and CDC, distributed processing (Spark/Flink), SQL mastery, workflow orchestration, data quality, platform and cloud architecture, pipeline observability, security and governance, performance engineering, system design, and MAANG interview preparation through capstone builds — cross-linking the existing observability book instead of duplicating it.

1 — Monitoring Pipelines

Monitoring data pipelines with metrics, logs, and traces, and defining pipeline health through SLIs and SLOs.

2 — Alerting

Alerting on the failure modes specific to data pipelines — freshness, completeness, volume anomalies, latency, and outright failures.

Data Engineering

A book-shaped table of contents for data engineering: foundations and lifecycle, data modeling, storage systems, ingestion and CDC, distributed processing (Spark/Flink), SQL mastery, workflow orchestration, data quality, platform and cloud architecture, pipeline observability, security and governance, performance engineering, system design, and MAANG interview preparation through capstone builds — cross-linking the existing observability book instead of duplicating it.

1 — What is Data Engineering?

How data engineering evolved into its own discipline, how the role differs from analytics engineering and data science, and the foundational distinctions (batch vs. streaming, OLTP vs. OLAP) that shape the rest of this book.