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FDE for Data Engineers
Free forward deployed engineering course: discovery, scoping a proof of concept, API and data integration, and deploying for customers, with runnable code.
- Lessons
- 6
- Interview questions
- 0
- Projects & case studies
- 0
- Reading time
- ~1 h
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Saved in this browser onlyCourse structure
- 1 lessonStart hereThe complete overview of the course in one read.
- 4 lessonsIntermediatePatterns used in production pipelines.
- 1 lessonAdvancedPerformance, internals and edge cases.
Practise
Lessons
Work through the lessons in order. Completed lessons show a tick; lessons you have opened are outlined.
Start here
The complete overview of the course in one read.
Intermediate
Patterns used in production pipelines.
- Technical Discovery for Forward Deployed EngineersHow to run technical discovery with a customer: the questions to ask, mapping systems and data, and profiling their data in week one, with runnable Python.
- How to Scope a Proof of Concept with a CustomerHow to scope a proof of concept (POC) that leads to a decision: one question, a success number, tight limits and a review date, plus POC vs prototype vs pilot.
- API Integration Explained: Connecting to a Customer's SystemsAPI integration explained: authentication, pagination, rate limits, retries and error handling when connecting to a customer's API, with runnable Python.
- Integrating Customer Data: Mapping, Cleaning and QuarantineHow to integrate a customer's data into a product: agree a field mapping, normalise values and formats, quarantine bad records and reconcile counts, with code.
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