Data Pipelines: A Guide to Data Management

Data Pipelines Overview. Data pipelines are a fundamental component of managing and processing data efficiently within modern systems. These pipelines typically encompass 5 predominant phases: Collect, Ingest, Store, Compute, and Consume. 1. Collect: Data is acquired from data stores, data streams, and applications, sourced remotely from devices, applications, or business systems. 2. Ingest: During the ingestion process, data is loaded into systems and organized within event queues. 3. Store: Post ingestion, organized data is stored in data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses, along with various systems like databases, ensuring post-ingestion storage. 4. Compute: Data undergoes aggregation, cleansing, and manipulation to conform to company standards, including tasks such as format conversion, data compression, and partitioning. This phase employs both batch and stream processing techniques. 5. Consume: Processed data is made available for consumption through analytics and visualization tools, operational data stores, decision engines, user-facing applications, dashboards, data science, machine learning services, business intelligence, and self-service analytics. The efficiency and effectiveness of each phase contribute to the overall success of data-driven operations within an organization. Over to you: What's your story with data-driven pipelines? How have they influenced your data management game? -- Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get a Free System Design PDF (158 pages): https://bit.ly/3KCnWXq #systemdesign #coding #interviewtips .

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Vaishali S.

Senior Specialist Advisor at NTT Data | Ex- IBMer | 1xAzure | 2xGCP | PMI-DASSM | DevOps Foundation Certified, CSM, SAFe Agilist 4.5

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Very helpful!

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Eduardo Silva

Sharing what I learn about AI, startups & embedded systems, while building my own company.

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Arieh Ostrowski

QA Automation Engineer at Dreamed Diabetes

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So consumers directly connect to the same store as the one data was loaded to? seems like there must be other steps + undercurrents

This comprehensive breakdown of data pipelines highlights the critical stages that ensure efficient data management and processing within modern systems. Each phase—Collect, Ingest, Store, Compute, and Consume—plays a pivotal role in transforming raw data into valuable insights. We've seen firsthand how well-designed data pipelines can significantly enhance data-driven decision-making processes. By leveraging advanced tools and techniques for data ingestion, storage, and computation, we help our clients optimize their data flow and gain actionable insights faster. For instance, integrating robust data pipelines has enabled us to streamline data processing tasks, enhance data quality, and improve the overall responsiveness of analytics applications. This, in turn, empowers our clients to make more informed decisions, driving better business outcomes.

Sokleng M

IT Banking Consultant | Core Banking & Digital Transformation Expert | 24+ Years in IT Banking | Project & Risk Management

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Great sharing!

Rajesh Natte

Senior Enterprise Architect @ Commvault | TOGAF Certified | Cloud Architect | Enterprise Architecture Consulting | Enterprise & Solution Architecture | IT Strategy & Governance | Digital Transformation | Trainer

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Excellent breakdown! Stream processing in the Compute phase is a game-changer, enabling real-time insights and actions.

Mudit Bhaintwal

Principal Software Engineer @ The Royal Bank of Scotland | Java, Microservices, Cloud-Native Architecture

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ByteByteGo - I think storing data and then doing compute is anti pattern. Better do a stream processing.

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