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GCP
6 May 2026 10 min

Building a Data Pipeline on GCP End to End

A pipeline is more than a load command. This guide builds a daily batch pipeline on Google Cloud in five stages, land, load, clean, check and publish, names the service for each, and runs the flow locally on real data to show a rerun that changes nothing and a truncated delivery that is held back, not published.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 9 min

Building an ETL Pipeline with ADF Step by Step

A first ADF pipeline copies data from A to B. A production ETL pipeline must also survive reruns, updated records and broken extracts. This step-by-step guide builds the stage, validate and merge design, shows on real runs why plain appends go wrong, and gives the ADF pipeline and stored procedure.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Building Your First Data Pipeline: A Walkthrough

A walkthrough of a first data pipeline on real data: extracting a month of NYC yellow taxi trips, rejecting rows that break simple rules, aggregating to a daily table, loading it in one transaction so reruns replace rather than duplicate, checking the load, and the next steps toward scheduling and monitoring.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Building a Streaming Pipeline with Kafka and Spark

A streaming pipeline built and run end to end: 77,033 real taxi events on a Kafka topic, read by Spark Structured Streaming, parsed from JSON, aggregated into hourly event-time windows with a watermark and written to a sink, with the real output showing why the final window is not emitted, plus what production adds.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 7 min

ADF Pipeline Best Practices for Production

A pipeline that works in debug is not yet a production pipeline. This guide collects the practices that close the gap in Azure Data Factory: small pipelines within documented limits, reruns that cannot corrupt data, credentials out of the factory, deployment by release pipeline, cost control and monitoring.

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AWS
6 May 2026 8 min

Building an ETL Pipeline on AWS Step by Step

A step-by-step ETL pipeline on AWS, run end to end: extract raw files from S3, validate 2.96 million real rows with named rules, load cleaned Parquet into a partition, register it in the Glue Data Catalog, write a reconciliation report, and rerun without duplicates. Each step is mapped to its production service.

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