Data Engineering in 2025 — The Future of Data Pipelines

With AI and big data adoption growing, data engineering is one of the most critical roles in tech today.

🧰 Tools of the Trade

• ETL: Apache Airflow, dbt
• Data Storage: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift
• Orchestration: Prefect, Dagster
• Streaming: Kafka, Flink

💡 Trends

• Real-time analytics and event-driven data
• DataOps and CI/CD for pipelines
• Unified data lakehouse architectures

📚 Learning Resources

• dbt Learn → https://learn.getdbt.com/
• Apache Airflow Docs → https://airflow.apache.org/docs/
• Google BigQuery → https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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