Data Engineering Courses and Certifications

Data Council

The Reality of Building a Modern AI Data Stack

A look at the trade-offs behind building a modern AI data stack, from large-scale data management to Data Mesh integration.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Council

Feed the Alligators With the Lights On - How Data Engineers Can See Who Really Uses Data

Use query logs and APIs to uncover how data is actually used and help data teams make safer changes.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Council

Creating a Purpose-Built Data Indexer for Blockchain - Challenges and Strategies

A real-world account of building a resilient indexer for complex blockchain data and making engineering trade-offs around its non-standard structures.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Council

Scaling Data Reliably: A Journey in Growing Through Data Pain Points

Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices to data systems to reduce downtime, monitor service levels, and prevent failures using metadata.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Council

The Road to Exceptional Data Correctness - Strategies from Stripe

Strategies and infrastructure trade-offs for maintaining highly correct data when inaccuracies are unacceptable.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Council

Extreme Self-Service: Turning Data Consumers into Data Constructors

Learn how data consumers can build their own data products through self-service analytics, supported by SQL literacy, community practices, and guard rails.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EuroPython Conference

The Rise of the YAML Engineer - Declarative Paradigms in Data Systems

Explores how declarative data systems shape practitioners’ work—and why using YAML to describe desired states does not make them YAML developers.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SF Python

Automate Your City Data With Python Using Datasette and GitHub Actions

Build a low- or no-cost pipeline that makes local government data easier to access and understand using Datasette, Python tooling, and GitHub Actions.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conf42

Unlocking Your Data's Potential with Python

See how Python can work across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data through Iceberg, Snowpark, and NiFi demonstrations.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

HashiCorp

Data and Analytics Reimagined with Terraform and DevOps Principles

A retail team’s data mesh platform turns siloed fashion data into reusable data products through Terraform modules tailored for data engineers.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conf42

Transforming IoT Data Management

A survey of how IoT data moves from collection through storage and processing, with attention to technical challenges and emerging solutions.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Toronto Machine Learning Series (TMLS)

AI-Ready Data Infrastructure for Real-Time Sensor Data Analytics on the Edge

A racing analytics case study shows how to build edge data architecture for real-time sensor insights, from data preparation to combining live and historical data.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Anyscale

Transforming Multimodal Data Management with LanceDB-Ray

See how LanceDB and Ray combine zero-copy schema evolution and large blob support to speed indexing, random access, and filtering of video and audio data.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MLOps.community

Data Contracts and Observability: Complementary Approaches to Data Quality

Learn how data contracts prevent known quality issues while observability detects unknown problems across a data system.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MLOps.community

Data Mesh: Composability over Ideology in the Data Stack - DE4AI

A practical framework for balancing reliable data services with decentralized team ownership as a data platform grows.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video