Summary

In this chapter, you learned what the Modern Data Stack is and how it can transform the work of data teams by lowering technical barriers, improving the speed of information delivery, and bringing modular and managed solutions. With its combination of a SQL-first approach, cloud-based systems, and managed and modular tools, the MDS brings improvements compared to legacy, on-premises, and monolithic stacks. Still, it is important to be aware of its pitfalls, such as the large number of tools and considerations about siloed information.

With the MDS, analytics engineers can leverage managed ingestion and data transformation tools to deliver end-to-end analytics.

In the following chapter, you will get the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of one of the MDS’s components – data ingestion. You will learn common approaches to it and what the steps are to set up an efficient and performant ingestion pipeline.