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Oli Huggins
CEO and Founder
For data engineers
Kimball's in the library. So is the Databricks course.
You learn this job by building pipelines. For the model underneath them, learn from the experts who wrote the book on it. From $10 a month.
Free for 7 days. Valid card required. Cancel anytime.
Foshin
De Wilde
Raghunath
Pandey
Batchelder
Sound familiar?
The sample CSV never renamed a column
Your source did, at 2am. Keep building your own pipelines. When one breaks, our experts have already written the chapter on why.
it's really hard to get actually messy sets that model real-life sets
data/orders.csv
- order_idBIGINT
- customer_idBIGINT
- amountDECIMAL(10,2)
- order_dateDATE
1,000 rows. Same columns every run.
sources/shop.orders
- order_idBIGINT
- customer_idBIGINT
- customer_ref
BIGINTVARCHARRenamed upstream1 - amount
DECIMAL(10,2)VARCHARNow a string2 - order_dateDATE
- promo_codeVARCHAR41% null3
dbt run failed: column "customer_id" does not exist
- 1
Renamed upstream
In the tutorial
The sample file kept its columns. Nobody showed you how to hold the source team to theirs.
In ExpertEdge
Wendy Batchelder led data teams at Fortune 500 firms. Her handbook shows how to get source teams to own their data.
- 2
Retyped overnight
In the tutorial
The tutorial knew its schema. Your job guessed the types. It guessed wrong.
In ExpertEdge
Dmitry Foshin's Azure Databricks course has a chapter on Delta Lake schema evolution. Delta rejects a write whose types don't match.
- 3
Half null, no warning
In the tutorial
The course data had no gaps to find. You heard about this one from the dashboard team.
In ExpertEdge
Fundamentals of Analytics Engineering gives data quality and observability a chapter. Catch the gap before anyone opens a report.
What do the tutorials skip?
Kimball and Ross wrote the book on data modelling
Tool tutorials stop at the pipeline. You're the one asked to fix the model nobody owns. Each fix below is a chapter of The Data Warehouse Toolkit, in the library now.
dim_customer
- customer_key
- city
- valid_fromType 2 history2
dim_dateShared by every fact
3- date_key
- fiscal_week
dim_product
- product_key
- sku
- category
dim_store
- store_key
- region
fct_order_linesGrain: one order line
1- date_key
- customer_key-1 until they land4
- product_key
- store_key
- quantity
- net_amount
- 1
Chapter 3 · Retail SalesDeclare the grain before the first column. The four-step design starts there.
- 2
Chapter 5 · ProcurementThe customer moved city. Slowly changing dimensions keep both addresses.
- 3
Chapter 4 · InventoryOne date table for every fact. The bus matrix keeps it conformed.
- 4
Chapter 19 · ETL Subsystems and TechniquesThe order landed before its customer. Kimball gives late-arriving data its own subsystem.
20titles on data modelling, warehouses and lakehouses
Nearly 90%of data engineers report problems with their data modelsJoe Reis, 2026 State of Data Engineering, 1,101 respondents
Who wrote it?
Learn from the experts who set the standard
Our experts have built the warehouses and pipelines they teach. You'll find them all in one library.
Tonya Chernyshova
A data engineer with over ten years in the job, including at Amazon.
2 titlesProfile
Is it current?
We queried our own library for you
Every title carries the year it came out. Here's how many cover each platform you get hired to run, counted when this page was built.
worksheets/is_it_current.sql
-- run on the ExpertEdge catalogue when this page was builtselect platform,count(*) as titles,max_by(title, released) as newestfrom expertedge.librarywhere category = 'Data Engineering & Analytics'group by platformorder by titles desc;
7 rows
platformtitlesnewest
- Apache Spark312026Data Engineering Vol2 AWS Data Processing - Spark & Kafka
- Databricks132026The Complete Databricks Project on Google Cloud (GCP)
- Snowflake62025Data Modeling with Snowflake
- Microsoft Fabric52026Azure Fabric Data Engineer CERT (DP-700) + PRACTICE QNS
- Open table formats52026Data Engineering Vol2 AWS Data Processing - Spark & Kafka
- BigQuery4Build Data Warehouse using BigQuery
- Polars, DuckDB32026Data Analysis with Polars and Python
241data engineering and analytics titles in the library
What do I read next?
Every skill the job asks for, in order
Tutorials jump from Spark to Kafka to dbt and never say why. Set Data Engineer as your target. ExpertEdge lines up the skills it asks for and the courses behind each one.
What you've built
Where you are
Analytics Engineering
Data Governance & Quality
Data Ingestion & Transformation (ETL)
Data Modeling & Database Design
Data Warehousing & Big Data
Database Technologies & Administration
Real-Time & Stream Processing
Data Engineer
The goal
And the bootcamp?
The bootcamp in your feed costs decades of ExpertEdge
A data engineering bootcamp can cost $2,500. The same money buys decades of the whole library here.
One data engineering bootcamp
$2,500
Price quoted on r/dataengineering, December 2024
By design
What we left out on purpose
Mid-incident, on demand
Read the fix when the pipeline breaks. No class to wait for.
Your own cloud
Every example runs on your own cloud. Nothing to port back.
Answers in the library
Search the error, land on the course. Faster than a forum.
Past the basics
We won't explain what a join is. Most titles start past the basics.
Keep building your own pipelines. The chapter on what breaks them is already here.
And the price?
One price, everything included
Monthly
Billed monthly
$15per month
Everything, month to month. Cancel anytime.
What's included
- Every modelling, Spark and warehouse title
- The whole course library
- Skills and a passport that stay yours
Annual
Billed yearly ($120)
$10per month
Everything for a third less, paid once a year.
What's included
- Every modelling, Spark and warehouse title
- The whole course library
- Skills and a passport that stay yours
No setup fees, no minimum seats. Invoicing available on plans of 20+ seats or more.
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