Data pipeline design playbook 2026
What’s inside the playbook?
This isn’t just theory. It’s a tactical guide to the 7 frameworks that are defining the 2026 data landscape:
- The kappa shift: Learn why treating everything as a stream is the secret to 100% data consistency.
- ELT vs. ETL: Why the transform-last approach is saving engineers 20+ hours of maintenance a week.
- Modern data lakes: Practical steps to implement “medallion architecture” and kill the data swamp for good.
- Microservices for data: How to build decoupled, unbreakable pipelines that scale horizontally.
- The lambda balance: When (and how) to combine batch and speed layers without doubling your workload.
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