This will cover all the important things from Spark, Databricks, Delta, Iceberg, and Delta Live Table needed to be amazing data engineers!
Airflow Pipelines with Iceberg
Data Lakes with Delta Table
Databricks and Advanced Spark
Structured Streaming Kafka to Delta Live Table
Managing Unstructured Data
Databricks and Spark Fundamentals (preread)
Q&A with Zach May 2025
Bonus - Azure
Tech Talks May 2025
TA Office Hours
Capstone DE Bootcamp May 2025
Advanced Snowflake
Change Data Capture (CDC) and Analytical Patterns
Advanced dbt
Bootcamp Kickoff
TA Office Hours
Passing Analytics Engineer Interviews
Bonus
dbt basics
Tech Talk
Pipeline Spec Building + Airflow Fundamentals
Community Engagement
Q&A with Zach Wilson
Interview Skills
Dimensional Data Modeling in Iceberg
Fact Data Modeling with Apache Iceberg
Data Quality Patterns in Apache Airflow
Unit and Integration Testing Spark Pipelines
Streaming Pipelines with Kafka and Spark Streaming
Analytical Patterns & Analysis with Trino
Large Language Models
Data Impact Communication & Visualization
Passing Analytics Engineer Interviews
Change Data Capture (CDC) and Analytical Patterns
Community Engagement
dbt
Iceberg + Trino
Guest Speaker Sessions
Career Development Sessions
TA Office Hours
Airflow + Trino
Snowflake + dbt Basics
Databricks Basics
Advanced Spark on Databricks
Snowflake + Advanced dbt
Real Time Data (Spark and Kafka Streaming)
Analytical Patterns and Advanced SQL
Bonus - LLMs
Capstone Showcase Jan 2025
KPIs and Experimentation
Data Quality Patterns
Fact Data Modeling
Apache Spark Fundamentals
Data Pipeline Maintenance
Bootcamp Orientation
Applying Analytical Patterns
Dimensional Data Modeling
Data Visualization and Impact
Real-time pipelines with Flink and Kafka