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
Tech Talk
Change Data Capture (CDC) and Analytical Patterns
Passing Analytics Engineer Interviews
Community Engagement
TA Office Hours
Pipeline Spec Building + Airflow Fundamentals
dbt basics
Advanced Snowflake
Bonus
Bootcamp Kickoff
Advanced dbt
Career Development Sessions
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
Q&A with Zach Wilson
Guest Speaker 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
Applying Analytical Patterns
Data Visualization and Impact
Data Pipeline Maintenance
Apache Spark Fundamentals
Bootcamp Orientation
Dimensional Data Modeling
Data Quality Patterns
KPIs and Experimentation
Fact Data Modeling
Real-time pipelines with Flink and Kafka