Gabe Campese: The Pipeline and the Person, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Nobody hands you a map when you start in data. The Pipeline and the Person is the book Gabe Campese wishes someone had handed him in his first year: part story, part field guide, part honest conversation about what a data engineering career demands and what it gives back.

Every AI system is a data system. As artificial intelligence reshapes the industry, the engineers who make data trustworthy become more valuable, not less. In about a hundred pages you will learn what to study first and what to ignore, how to design before you code, why data quality is the job, how to choose between SQL, Pandas, Polars, and Spark, and how to build with AI without being hollowed out by it. Along the way the book covers the fundamentals that outlast every tool: data modeling and historization, incremental processing, medallion architecture, data contracts, the lakehouse, and graph thinking.

You will also learn what no platform teaches: earning trust, leading from anywhere, pricing your worth, and protecting the life all of this is supposed to serve. Every chapter ends with one rep. Do the reps.

Fundamentals compound. Tools expire. The pipeline and the person are the same project.