Cloud Data Management and Analysis

  1. Orchestration and Automation
    1. Workflow Orchestration
      1. Defining and Managing Data Pipelines
        1. Scheduling and Dependency Management
          1. Error Handling and Retries
            1. Parallel and Sequential Execution
              1. Conditional Logic
              2. Key Services
                1. AWS Step Functions
                  1. State Machines
                    1. Express and Standard Workflows
                      1. Error Handling Patterns
                        1. Integration with AWS Services
                        2. Azure Data Factory Pipelines
                          1. Pipeline Authoring
                            1. Activity Types
                              1. Triggers and Scheduling
                                1. Monitoring and Alerting
                                2. Google Cloud Composer (Managed Airflow)
                                  1. DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs)
                                    1. Operators and Sensors
                                      1. XComs for Data Passing
                                        1. Environment Management
                                      2. Open Source Orchestration Tools
                                        1. Apache Airflow
                                          1. DAG Development
                                            1. Executor Types
                                              1. Plugin Architecture
                                              2. Prefect
                                                1. Flow and Task Definition
                                                  1. State Management
                                                    1. Cloud Integration
                                                2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
                                                  1. Defining Data Infrastructure in Code
                                                    1. Version Control for Infrastructure
                                                      1. Reproducibility and Automation
                                                        1. Environment Consistency
                                                          1. Change Management
                                                          2. Key Tools
                                                            1. AWS CloudFormation
                                                              1. Template Structure
                                                                1. Stack Management
                                                                  1. Nested Stacks
                                                                    1. Change Sets
                                                                    2. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
                                                                      1. Resource Deployment
                                                                        1. Template Functions
                                                                          1. Linked Templates
                                                                            1. Deployment Modes
                                                                            2. Terraform
                                                                              1. Multi-Cloud Support
                                                                                1. State Management
                                                                                  1. Modules and Providers
                                                                                    1. Plan and Apply Workflow
                                                                                  2. Configuration Management
                                                                                    1. Ansible
                                                                                      1. Chef
                                                                                        1. Puppet
                                                                                          1. Salt
                                                                                        2. CI/CD for Data Pipelines
                                                                                          1. Version Control for Data Code
                                                                                            1. Git Workflows
                                                                                              1. Branching Strategies
                                                                                                1. Code Review Processes
                                                                                                2. Automated Testing
                                                                                                  1. Unit Testing
                                                                                                    1. Integration Testing
                                                                                                      1. Data Quality Testing
                                                                                                        1. Performance Testing
                                                                                                        2. Deployment Strategies
                                                                                                          1. Blue-Green Deployment
                                                                                                            1. Canary Deployment
                                                                                                              1. Rolling Deployment
                                                                                                                1. Feature Flags