Review: Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley

If you read only one book to understand data engineering as a disciplined, mature field in 2024+, this is it. Prior to this book, most resources focused on tool-specific tutorials (Spark, Airflow, Kafka). Reis and Housley instead provide the for thinking about data engineering as an engineering discipline, not just a collection of ETL scripts.

Joe Reis is active on Twitter (X) and LinkedIn. He has explicitly supported legitimate access while acknowledging financial barriers for students. However, piracy hurts the ability to write a second edition.

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