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Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta
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"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional."
– Joe Paterno, Football Coach
In the previous chapter, we saw how Delta helps with the hardening of data pipelines and making them production worthy. Now that the pipeline is put into action, crunching massive datasets every day, we want that pipeline to be as lean and mean as possible, to extract every ounce of performance from it to make the most of the infrastructure investment while serving the needs of the business users. In addition, the numbers around the end-to-end SLA requirements of pipelines need to be shaved. Both cost and speed are the driving requirements, which is why the key metric is price performance as both aspects need to be optimized.
In this chapter, we will explore the ways that data engineers...