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⚡DATA ENGINEERING ACADEMY • 1,863+ QUESTIONS • 7 DOMAINS

Data Engineering Academy

Build practical skills in Python, SQL, data pipelines, distributed processing, cloud platforms, and data systems. Master technical interviews across 98 tech companies with production-tested solutions.

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Real-Time Streaming Lakehouse Pipeline Architecture50,000 Events/Sec • Exactly-Once

Throughput & Backpressure

Max offsets per trigger bounded to prevent worker OOM memory spills.

Exactly-Once Semantics

Stateful checkpoints + idempotent transaction commit hashes.

Schema Evolution

mergeSchema=true on ingestion handles new nullable attributes safely.

Batch vs. Event-Driven Streaming ArchitectureThroughput vs Latency Trade-offs

Batch ExecutionHigh Throughput • High Latency

Trigger Interval:Hourly / Daily (Cron)

Fault Tolerance:Restart failed stage from checkpoint

Join Strategy:Sort-Merge / Broadcast Hash Join

Optimal For:Large historical transforms & ML training

Event StreamingUltra-Low Latency (< 2s)

Trigger Interval:Continuous / Micro-batch (100ms)

Fault Tolerance:Write-ahead log + offset commit

Stateful Joins:Watermarking + Stream-Stream RocksDB

Optimal For:Fraud detection, telemetry, live sync

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7 Core Engineering Domains

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Behavioral

Engineering leadership, managing stakeholder expectations, resolving cross-team outages, and ownership.

•Handling production outages

•Prioritizing competing data requests

•Cross-functional trade-offs

Spark/Big Data

RDDs, DataFrames, Catalyst optimizer, shuffle partitions, coalesce vs repartition, and memory management.

•Shuffle spills & skewed joins

•Dynamic resource allocation

•Broadcast joins

SQL

Window functions, recursive CTEs, query execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, and analytical queries.

•ROW_NUMBER vs DENSE_RANK

•Partitioning & indexing

•Query execution plans

Python/Coding

Data structures, PySpark optimizations, generators, OOP design, and performance-critical data transformations.

•Memory-efficient generators

•PySpark UDF overhead

•Custom serializers

System Design/Architecture

Large-scale batch and streaming architectures, lakehouses, lambda vs kappa, and disaster recovery.

•Real-time event streaming

•Lakehouse storage architecture

•Exactly-once semantics

Cloud/Tools

AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow DAG orchestration, Kafka, and dbt transformations.

•Snowflake micro-partitions

•Airflow backfilling & sensors

•Kafka consumer lag

General/Other

Data governance, schema evolution, data quality monitoring, and fundamental distributed systems theory.

•Data observability & alerts

•Schema drift mitigation

•CAP theorem in practice

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