Data Engineering — Your First Step

Orchestration, ETL, DAGs, and Tasks

Rahul S
6 min readDec 3, 2023

ORCHESTRATION

Let’s talk about orchestration. The operational environment of a modern enterprise is quite complex. People and technologies work together to achieve business results, and speed and efficiency are top priorities. These working models can become increasingly complex, and ensuring that the right set of steps occurs in the correct order can be challenging. Additionally, as workloads increase and organizations set higher goals, the more work that can be automated in a fixed and planned manner, the better.

The data engineering workflow is based on automation. The best data processing engineers can take complex workflows and turn them into effective and repeatable tasks.

Orchestration is the process of coordinating various stages and components of the data pipeline to ensure efficient and accurate data processing.

In the context of data engineering, orchestration involves designing and implementing a reproducible system that automates the flow of data through the pipeline.

Orchestration is not a new concept, but it has gained new significance with the emergence of data engineering…

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