Declarative Pipelines & Intelligent Orchestration

What You’ll Learn:

1. Introduction to Intelligent Orchestration:
   • Understand the evolution of data pipeline orchestration and the shift towards declarative engineering to minimize coding effort while maximizing efficiency.
2. The Foundation of Smart Data Pipelines:
   • Discover how tracking every aspect of data, from its origin to transformations, enables smarter pipeline decisions and optimizations.
3. Autonomy in Orchestration:
   • Learn how an autonomous control system can adapt to code and data changes, ensuring your data pipelines are always up-to-date without manual intervention.
4. Efficient Change Detection and Scalability:
   • Explore techniques like SHA calculations and Merkle trees that enable efficient change detection and scalability, handling trillions of records and billions of partitions with ease.
5. Self-Optimizing Pipelines:
   • Delve into how intelligent persistence and metadata tracking can lead to self-optimizing data pipelines, reducing the need for manual tuning and optimization.
6. Practical Benefits and Applications:
   • Gain insights into the practical benefits of declarative pipeline orchestration, including zero-operation pipeline copies, data deduplication, and seamless dev-stage-prod pipeline transitions.