10 Lessons
Senior Data Architect
★ 4.98
(3,300+ Engineers Enrolled)
Data Engineering, Big Data & ETL Infrastructure Architecture
Apache Spark, Kafka Stream Processing, Airflow DAGs, Snowflake & Delta Lake
⏱️ 52 Hours
📖 6 Modules
⚡ 20 Interactive Lessons
🏆 Free Verified Certificate
Complete Track Curriculum & Modules
Step-by-step interactive lessons with live browser compilers & coding assignments.
20 Lessons
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3 Lessons
Module 1: Modern Data Engineering Architecture & The Data Stack
01. The Modern Data Stack: OLTP vs OLAP, ETL vs ELT & Batch vs Stream Processing Architecture
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
02. Dimensional Modeling: Kimball Methodology, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema & Fact vs Dimension Tables
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
03. Columnar Storage Formats: Apache Parquet, ORC, Snappy Compression & Dictionary Encoding Internals
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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4 Lessons
Module 2: Distributed Processing with Apache Spark & PySpark
04. Apache Spark Core Architecture: Driver, Executors, RDDs, DAG Scheduler & Spark Catalyst Optimizer
⏱️ 50 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
05. High-Performance PySpark DataFrames: Transformations (Narrow vs Wide), Actions & Lazy Evaluation
⏱️ 50 mins
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06. Spark Optimization Masterclass: Partitioning, Coalesce vs Repartition, Broadcast Joins & Skew Data Handling
⏱️ 55 mins
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07. Spark Structured Streaming: Event-Time Processing, Watermarking & Windowed Aggregations
⏱️ 50 mins
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3 Lessons
Module 3: Real-Time Event Streaming with Apache Kafka
08. Apache Kafka Architecture: Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Replicas, ISR (In-Sync Replicas) & KRaft Consensus
⏱️ 50 mins
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09. Kafka Producers & Consumers: Partitioning Keys, Consumer Groups, Rebalancing & Offset Commit Management
⏱️ 45 mins
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10. Schema Evolution & Governance: Confluent Schema Registry with Apache Avro and Protobuf Schemas
⏱️ 45 mins
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4 Lessons
Module 4: Modern Data Lakehouse Architecture (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg)
11. Data Lakehouse Architecture: Evolution from Data Lakes (S3/HDFS) to ACID Lakehouses
⏱️ 45 mins
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12. Delta Lake Architecture: Transaction Log (_delta_log), Time Travel, Schema Enforcement & ACID Guarantees
⏱️ 50 mins
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13. Apache Iceberg: Metadata Layer, Hidden Partitioning, Snapshot Isolation & Compaction Optimization
⏱️ 50 mins
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14. The Medallion Architecture: Bronze (Raw Ingestion) -> Silver (Enriched) -> Gold (Business Aggregates)
⏱️ 45 mins
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3 Lessons
Module 5: Workflow Orchestration with Apache Airflow & Dagster
15. Apache Airflow Core: DAGs, Operators, Sensors, Task Execution Engine & Celery/Kubernetes Executors
⏱️ 50 mins
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16. Production Airflow Best Practices: Idempotent Tasks, Dynamic DAG Generation, Backfilling & SLA Alerts
⏱️ 50 mins
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17. Modern Data Orchestration with Dagster: Software-Defined Assets, Declarative Scheduling & Type Safety
⏱️ 45 mins
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3 Lessons
Module 6: Cloud Data Warehousing (Snowflake / BigQuery) & dbt Transformations
18. Cloud Data Warehouses: Snowflake Multi-Cluster Shared Data Architecture vs Google BigQuery Dremel Engine
⏱️ 50 mins
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19. Data Transformations with dbt (data build tool): Modular SQL Models, Jinja Macros, Materializations & Testing
⏱️ 50 mins
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20. End-to-End Enterprise Data Pipeline Project: Kafka -> Spark -> Delta Lake -> dbt -> Snowflake Dashboard
⏱️ 60 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
Target Big Tech Roles
Google / Meta SDE-2
Senior Full-Stack Architect
Lead Backend Engineer
Skills You Will Master
- Production-Grade Clean Architecture
- V8 Internals, Memory Profiling & Leaks
- Time & Space Complexity Optimization
- Big Tech Behavioral & System Design Edge
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