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Building Automated Data Pipelines with Spark,dbt,and Airflow

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Building Automated Data Pipelines with Spark,dbt,and Airflow

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Beginner level

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build end-to-end data pipelines that automatically ingest from databases, APIs, and streams using Spark, dbt, and Airflow tools.

  • Design data models with historical tracking using SCD Type 2 patterns to preserve complete change history for analytics.

  • Create automated workflows with intelligent retry logic, SLA monitoring, and parameterization for production reliability.

  • Optimize Spark job performance using partitioning and caching strategies to achieve 30%+ runtime improvements.

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March 2026

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