Scalable Data Architecture: The Engineer’s Guide to Building Maintainable Systems that Slash Technical Debt and Eliminate On-Call Burnout (The AI Systems Architect Series)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Scalable Data Architecture: The Engineer’s Guide to Building Maintainable Systems that Slash Technical Debt and Eliminate On-Call Burnout (The AI Systems Architect Series)
- Author
- Dunavant, Clinton S.
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
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- New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798258831453
- Series
- Book 3 of 5: The AI Systems Architect Series
Are your data pipelines fast enough to impress stakeholders, but fragile enough to wake engineers at 3:00 AM? Modern data teams are drowning in schema drift, runaway cloud costs, broken dashboards, silent failures, messy transformations, and on-call pressure that never seems to end.
Scalable Data Architecture gives data engineers, platform architects, analytics engineers, and technical leaders a practical playbook for building maintainable data systems that scale without turning teams into permanent firefighters. This book shows how to move beyond brittle scripts and reactive fixes by applying software engineering discipline to modern data platforms: data contracts, idempotent ingestion, partitioned storage, CI/CD, observability, governance, FinOps, real-time processing, and AI-ready vector infrastructure.
Inside, readers will learn how to:
- Build resilient ingestion pipelines that handle retries, schema drift, malformed records, and large files.
- Design scalable data lakes with Parquet, Iceberg, partitioning, compaction, and lifecycle policies.
- Reduce technical debt with modular SQL, dbt-style transformations, reusable macros, and documentation-as-code.
- Control cloud data costs through query optimization, tagging, deduplication, and automated cost guards.
- Monitor latency, freshness, volume, and quality before silent failures reach business users.
- Deploy data changes safely with unit tests, blue-green deployment, rollback strategies, and automated governance.
- Support real-time pipelines, vector data, RAG systems, and AI infrastructure without unnecessary complexity.
If you want data systems that are easier to operate, safer to change, cheaper to run, and kinder to the engineers who maintain them, this book gives you the blueprint.
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