What problem does it solve?
It prevents fragile data pipelines by guiding architecture, ETL/ELT patterns, data quality validation, orchestration practices, and governance controls so downstream systems trust the data.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Pipeline Architecture Guidance: Idempotency, schema evolution, incremental processing, and exactly-once-oriented ingestion design.
- ETL/ELT Pattern Selection: Clear decisioning for batch vs streaming, Lambda/Kappa trade-offs, and Medallion modeling (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
- Data Quality & Governance Controls: Non-negotiable checks for completeness, uniqueness, referential integrity, freshness, and expected volume, plus lineage, access controls, PII handling, and retention policies.
- Orchestration Best Practices: Retries, backfills, SLA breach alerting, and separation of orchestration from computation.
Quick Start
Use the data-engineering skill to design an idempotent ETL/ELT pipeline for a warehouse ingestion flow that validates data quality, supports schema evolution, and defines governance and retention rules.