Suggest a few books for someone with zero experience as a data engineer please. (20 yrs of experience in the industry but none in data, some basic sql)

Looking to break into a data engineer role.

What books would you consider the bible of data engineering?

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Designing Data Intensive Applications. It basically plants the fundamental seeds on everything you need to know. Read the book and use it as a starting point for further research

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Yeah I have heard of this one. Definitely one for my list. Ty.

ralph kimball’s data warehouse toolkit is a good one for data modeling. of course I’d probs spend my time learning programming languages up front

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well sure, airflow is written in python so you’d definitely need to be proficient in using that language. the data platform roles you’re talking about are usually more engineering heavy, you’re building for reliability so code standards are stricter etc.

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Do you have any experience coding? If so check out the udacity data engineering nanodegree. It’s pricey but it really does a great job of taking you from intermediate python programming and SQL to having a really good grasp of DE.

Generally is aroun $1600 but will go on sale around black friday. Program is 5 months at 5 hours a week

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will probably drop down to 1k during holidays FWIW. Imo it was well worth it

No one place, just learn about sql and tables and data types, schemas, architecture etc

Yep! I’m more of a BI engineer but I never found books super helpful. I really enjoyed Udemy courses where you build things along with the course, check out some top rated courses there!

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