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Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837632602
Pages 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gláucia Esppenchutz Gláucia Esppenchutz
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Data Ingestion
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Ingestion 3. Chapter 2: Principals of Data Access – Accessing Your Data 4. Chapter 3: Data Discovery – Understanding Our Data before Ingesting It 5. Chapter 4: Reading CSV and JSON Files and Solving Problems 6. Chapter 5: Ingesting Data from Structured and Unstructured Databases 7. Chapter 6: Using PySpark with Defined and Non-Defined Schemas 8. Chapter 7: Ingesting Analytical Data 9. Part 2: Structuring the Ingestion Pipeline
10. Chapter 8: Designing Monitored Data Workflows 11. Chapter 9: Putting Everything Together with Airflow 12. Chapter 10: Logging and Monitoring Your Data Ingest in Airflow 13. Chapter 11: Automating Your Data Ingestion Pipelines 14. Chapter 12: Using Data Observability for Debugging, Error Handling, and Preventing Downtime 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating connectors in Airflow

Having DAGs and operators without connecting to any external source is useless. Of course, there are many ways to ingest files, even from other DAGs or task results. Still, data ingestion usually involves using external sources such as APIs or databases as the first step of a data pipeline.

To make this happen, in this recipe, we will understand how to create a connector in Airflow to connect to a sample database.

Getting ready

Refer to the Getting ready section of the Configuring Airflow recipe for this recipe since we will handle it with the same technology.

This exercise will also require the MongoDB local database to be up and running. Ensure you have configured it as seen in Chapter 1 and have at least one database and collection. You can use the instructions from the Connecting to a NoSQL database (MongoDB) recipe in Chapter 5.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to perform this recipe:

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