Week 1 Data Engineering: Source Systems & Ingestion

12 to 16 Week Data Engineering Course

Textbook and Readings

The most effective way to teach Data Engineering is in the order that mirrors real, on‑the‑job data engineering work structuring the 16‑week sequence around the actual lifecycle of a production data platform.
In industry, data engineers don’t learn concepts in isolation—they learn them while building, breaking, fixing, and scaling real pipelines.
Therefore, I will follow this instructional flow:

1. Start with how data is generated and moves (Source Systems & Ingestion)
2. How engineers think and collaborate (Intro to DE)
3. Where data lives and how it’s queried (Storage & Queries)
4. How data is modeled, transformed, and served (Modeling & Serving)