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Fundamentals of DataOps
This course introduces you to DataOps basics, including its origins, components, real-life applications, and ways to implement it. Skills Gained Understand the fundamentals of DataOps and how people...
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$810 USD
Duration
1 day
Course Code
WA3219
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
This course introduces you to DataOps basics, including its origins, components, real-life applications, and ways to implement it.
Skills Gained
- Understand the fundamentals of DataOps and how people collaborate to deliver data for specific purposes.
- Learn the three standard DataOps pipelines (Production, Development, and Environment) and how to orchestrate the necessary teams, tools, and processes
- Test, measure, and iteratively improve DataOps production pipelines
- Structure the development pipeline to fit the development lifecycle and use it to achieve fast deployments
- Build environment pipelines, manage components, and adapt the environment to different use cases
- Apply Lean DataOps to improve your organization’s data operations
Who Can Benefit
- Data and Business Analysts
- Information Architects
- Technical Managers
Prerequisites
General knowledge of programming and data processing.
Course Details
Outline
DataOps Introduction
- Data Analytics On the Run
- Impediments to the Data Analytics Cycle Time
- Finding a Solution ...
- What is DataOps?
- Agile Development ...
- DevOps
- The DataOps Technology and Methodology Stack
- The DataOps and Data Science Relationship
- DataOps Relationships with Other Data Management Disciplines and Concerns
- Standing Up a DataOps Practice
- The Lean Manufacturing Methodology
- Statistical Process Control
- What is Six Sigma?
- DataOps Enterprise Data Technologies
- The DataOps Manifesto
- Problems that DataOps Solves
- DataOps Leadership Principles
The DataOps Problem Domain
- Connecting to the Digital Realm ...
- Data is King
- Actionable Insights
- Snowflake Environments
- Data Observability
- Cloud Resource Monitoring Dashboards
- Fragmented Data Sources
- Data Formats
- Interoperable Data
- The Data-Related Roles
- What is Data Engineering
- The Typical Data Analytics (Machine Learning) Pipeline
- IT Systems' Woes
- Types of Architecture
- How to Lead with Data (the "Fidelity Way" *)
- How to Lead with Data: Ownership
- How to Lead with Data: Shared Environment Security Controls
- How to Lead with Data: the Current Trends
- DataOps Functional Architecture
- Key Components of a DataOps Platform
- Automation
- Maintenance
- DataOps Data Pipelines
- Building Pipelines: Aggregating System DAGs
- Distributed Data Flow Challenges
- Promoting Teamwork
- The Tragedy of the (Unmanaged) Commons
- Tests in Data Analytics
- Test Types
- The Netflix Simian Army Test Suite
- Input Data "Irregularities"
- Dealing with Missing Data in Python
DataOps Technology and Tools
- Data Storage System Types
- The CAP Theorem
- The CAP Triangle - Which Storage System to Choose
- Mechanisms to Guarantee a Single CAP Property
- Data Physics (a.k.a Distributed Data Economics)
- Hadoop: Example of Collocating Data and Computation
- An Example of Hive DDL
- Efficient Storage with Columnar Formats
- Example: AWS Athena Storage and Processing Cost Savings
- Example: Converting the CSV Data Format into Parquet Using HiveQL CTAS Statement
- The Cloud: Value Proposition
- Lessons from the Field
- Design for System Resiliency
- How eBay Preempts Possible Database Corruption
- Cloud Data Services
- The Cloud Strategy
- Virtualization
- Virtualization Benefits
- What is Docker
- What is Kubernetes
- Computing Services in the Cloud
- Get Educated ...
- "Good/Not so Good" Use Cases for the Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Example of Provisioning and Running a PostgreSQL Database in Docker
- IoC Systems and Tools
- Workflow (Pipeline) Orchestration Systems
- Example of a Workflow Orchestration System: Apache NiFi
- NiFi Processor Types
- Building a Simple Data Flow in the NiFi Designer
- An Annotated Example of Using scikit-learn Python Machine Learning (ML) Pipeline Class
- Version Control Systems
- Branching and Merging Visually
- Some Popular Version Control Systems
- Overview of DataOps Tools and Services
IT Governance
- IT Governance
- Data Governance
- Controlling the Decision-Making Process
- Enterprise IT Governance Models
- Key Artifacts
- Agile IT
- Types of System Requirements
- Scoping Requirements
- Requirements Gathering ...
- Data Governance Overview
- Data Governance Roles and Responsibilities
- Roles and Responsibilities in DataOps
- Example of Assigning Responsibilities (AWS Shared Responsibility Model)
- Example of a Governance-Enabling Service
- Governance Best Practices
- Governance Gotchas
- The Goldilocks Principle
Lab Exercises
- Lab 1. Data Availability and Consistency
Schedule
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May 6, 2025 - May 6, 2025 (1 day)
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Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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Reviews
the course is good, covers many aspects, wish the lab is a little bit more in depth
Good training materials and lecture. And hands on lab and the instructor guiding was good.
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this class was informative, made me think about certifying for the suse manager cert.
The course was informative, and I learnt a new skill. The instructor was up to the point.
