You're reading from Data Engineering with dbt A practical guide to building a cloud-based, pragmatic, and dependable data platform with SQL

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246284

Length 578 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

dbt

Concepts

Data Engineering

Author (1):

Roberto Zagni

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Foundations of Data Engineering

2. Chapter 1: The Basics of SQL to Transform Data FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your dbt Cloud Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Data Modeling for Data Engineering

5. Chapter 4: Analytics Engineering as the New Core of Data Engineering

6. Chapter 5: Transforming Data with dbt

7. Part 2: Agile Data Engineering with dbt

8. Chapter 6: Writing Maintainable Code

9. Chapter 7: Working with Dimensional Data

10. Chapter 8: Delivering Consistency in Your Data

11. Chapter 9: Delivering Reliability in Your Data

12. Chapter 10: Agile Development

13. Chapter 11: Team Collaboration

14. Part 3: Hands-On Best Practices for Simple, Future-Proof Data Platforms

15. Chapter 12: Deployment, Execution, and Documentation Automation

16. Chapter 13: Moving Beyond the Basics

17. Chapter 14: Enhancing Software Quality

18. Chapter 15: Patterns for Frequent Use Cases

19. Index

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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

In this chapter, we have talked about the data life cycle, software engineering principles, DevOps, and DataOps. There are many books on these subjects, but none that we are aware of about the modern data stack, so we present here a few very classical references that are written with software application development in mind, but present topics that are of use in every programming context:

My personal favorite, as it makes clear the benefits of clean code:

Robert C. Martin, aka “Uncle Bob”, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Prentice Hall, 2008, ISBN 978-0132350884

If you like this one, there are a few other books about clean code and architecture written by Uncle Bob. You can also refer to his site: http://cleancoder.com/.

The classical book about keeping your code in good shape, from an author that I deeply respect and that has produced my favorite quote, which could be the title of this chapter: “...