Production-Grade Data Pipelines (Paperback)
Samuel R. Whitmore
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Add to basketPaperback. Your pipelines don't fail when they break - they fail when they silently succeed.If you've ever shipped a pipeline that "ran green" but produced the wrong data, triggered an expensive backfill, or collapsed under scale, you already know the hard truth: most guidance on data pipelines stops at "it runs." Production reality demands more.This book is written for you - the data engineer, analytics engineer, platform owner, or tech lead responsible for production data pipelines long after launch. You live with late data, unclear ownership, fragile retries, rising cloud costs, and Airflow DAGs that worked. until they didn't.Production-Grade Data Pipelines shows you how to design, operate, and scale systems that remain trustworthy over time. It focuses on data pipeline reliability, real-world data pipeline architecture, and the operational discipline required to keep pipelines correct as systems, teams, and business demands evolve.Rather than treating Apache Airflow as a scripting tool, this book teaches Apache Airflow production usage the right way - as a control plane for dependable data engineering operations, not a dumping ground for business logic.In this book, you'll learn how to: Design production-ready data pipeline architecture that survives change, growth, and failureApply Airflow best practices that reduce fragility instead of hiding itImplement safe pipeline failure handling without cascading incidentsBuild effective data pipeline observability beyond "task failed" alertsControl the real cost and risk of pipeline backfills and retriesAlign reliability, cost, and speed through intentional operational tradeoffsEstablish ownership, SLAs, and on-call practices that actually work in productionThis is not a beginner tutorial or a collection of DAG examples. It is a production handbook for engineers and teams who are accountable for data systems businesses depend on every day.If you own pipelines in production, this book will change how you design - and trust - them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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If you’ve ever shipped a pipeline that “ran green” but produced the wrong data, triggered an expensive backfill, or collapsed under scale, you already know the hard truth: most guidance on data pipelines stops at “it runs.” Production reality demands more.
This book is written for you — the data engineer, analytics engineer, platform owner, or tech lead responsible for production data pipelines long after launch. You live with late data, unclear ownership, fragile retries, rising cloud costs, and Airflow DAGs that worked… until they didn’t.
Production-Grade Data Pipelines shows you how to design, operate, and scale systems that remain trustworthy over time. It focuses on data pipeline reliability, real-world data pipeline architecture, and the operational discipline required to keep pipelines correct as systems, teams, and business demands evolve.
Rather than treating Apache Airflow as a scripting tool, this book teaches Apache Airflow production usage the right way — as a control plane for dependable data engineering operations, not a dumping ground for business logic.
In this book, you’ll learn how to:Design production-ready data pipeline architecture that survives change, growth, and failure
Apply Airflow best practices that reduce fragility instead of hiding it
Implement safe pipeline failure handling without cascading incidents
Build effective data pipeline observability beyond “task failed” alerts
Control the real cost and risk of pipeline backfills and retries
Align reliability, cost, and speed through intentional operational tradeoffs
Establish ownership, SLAs, and on-call practices that actually work in production
This is not a beginner tutorial or a collection of DAG examples. It is a production handbook for engineers and teams who are accountable for data systems businesses depend on every day.
If you own pipelines in production, this book will change how you design — and trust — them.
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