Who this book is for
If you are an IT professional, IT manager, or business leader looking to build a large-scale data engineering solution, then this book will provide you with a solid set of best practices. As a data engineer, it will give you details behind the best-practice recommendations so you assess the right approaches for your effort. All this should take many hours of pain out of your engineering efforts. If you have to implement a series of proofs of concepts, then this book points to the technologies and vendors that you should avoid so that the proof of concept does not become a proof of failure (POF). If all this is of interest to you, then this book is for you.
