Etl Pipelines

What I do

• Build scalable ETL pipelines
• Design data pipeline architectures
• Implement real-time and batch pipelines
• Manage pipeline orchestration
• Handle error handling and retries
• Monitor pipeline health
• Optimize pipeline performance

When to use me

Use me when:

• Building production data pipelines
• Implementing real-time data processing
• Creating data orchestration workflows
• Managing complex data dependencies
• Monitoring data pipeline health

Key Concepts

Pipeline Orchestration

# Apache Airflow DAG
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.python import PythonOperator
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

default_args = {
    "owner": "data_team",
    "depends_on_past": False,
    "retries": 3,
    "retry_delay": timedelta(minutes=5)
}

with DAG(
    "etl_pipeline",
    start_date=datetime(2024, 1, 1),
    schedule_interval="@daily",
    default_args=default_args
) as dag:
    
    extract = PythonOperator(
        task_id="extract",
        python_callable=extract_data
    )
    
    transform = PythonOperator(
        task_id="transform",
        python_callable=transform_data,
        dependencies=[extract]
    )
    
    load = PythonOperator(
        task_id="load",
        python_callable=load_data,
        dependencies=[transform]
    )

Pipeline Patterns

• Incremental Load: Process only new data
• Change Data Capture (CDC): Track changes
• Backfill: Reprocess historical data
• Idempotency: Safe to re-run

Streaming Pipeline

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql.functions import window, col

spark = SparkSession.builder \
    .appName("StreamingETL") \
    .config("spark.sql.streaming.checkpointLocation", "/checkpoints") \
    .getOrCreate()

# Read streaming data
stream = spark.readStream \
    .format("kafka") \
    .option("kafka.bootstrap.servers", "broker:9092") \
    .option("subscribe", "events") \
    .load()

# Transform streaming
enriched = stream \
    .select(
        col("value").cast("string").alias("json")
    ) \
    .withColumn("data", F.from_json("json", schema)) \
    .select("data.*")

# Write streaming
query = enriched \
    .writeStream \
    .format("delta") \
    .option("checkpointLocation", "/checkpoints") \
    .trigger(processingTime="1 minute") \
    .start("/data/lakehouse/tables/events")

Tools

• Batch: Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
• Stream: Spark Streaming, Flink, Kafka Streams
• Cloud: Dataflow, Glue, Synapse, Fabric