Musings on the Data Engineering Zoomcamp: Week 1

Post motivated by #learninginpublic and Alexey!

I’ve recently started the Data Engineering Zoomcamp organized by DataTalks.club. The course covers a broad range of topics quite relevant to data engineering and is well-organized. Content-wise, the zoompcamp content is bit broader than the Udacity Data Engineering Nanodegree that I recently finished. I will try to write a post compare them once I finish the DE Zoomcamp.

So far, I’ve been enjoying quite a lot. Kudos to the organizing team (Alexey, Sejal, Victoria, Ankush and everyone else)!

I will try to post weekly on things I’ve learned/tried. Disclaimer: I probably wouldn’t have written much about my endeavor. But Alexey (https://github.com/alexeygrigorev) made a good argument for #learninginpublic. And we get points for #learninginpublic every week 😉

Just finished the homework for week 1. Contents were (not ordered):

• Docker/ Docker-compose

• Google cloud platform (VM instances, running ETL in GCP with/without Docker,)

• Terraform

• SQL refresher

Week 1 homework was mostly focused on SQL (with a bit of data ingestion).

Cheers!