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Overview & Motivation When you work in data systems and pipelines, one of the central challenges is moving, shaping, and distributing data so that it’s useful where it needs to be. Over time, different paradigms have emerged for how and when you transform data, and in which direction your data

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At its core, data engineering is about building the plumbing that makes data usable. It’s the discipline and craft of designing, building, maintaining, and operating systems and processes that take raw data — often messy, scattered, or in many formats — and turn it into reliable, structured data that people

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