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Business intelligence is no longer just about building dashboards.

Modern organizations expect data to be accurate, available when it is needed, scalable as the business grows, and trustworthy enough to support financial, operational, and strategic decisions. Behind every reliable dashboard is an engineering system-and building that system requires much more than knowing SQL or a BI tool.

Modern BI Engineering is a practical guide to designing, building, and operating the data infrastructure that turns raw business data into reliable, actionable intelligence.

Instead of focusing on isolated tools or simplistic tutorials, this book takes you through the complete BI engineering lifecycle: from source systems and data ingestion to transformation, data modeling, warehousing, orchestration, semantic layers, dashboards, governance, security, and production operations.

You will learn how the different pieces fit together-and, more importantly, why the decisions made at one stage can affect everything downstream.

Inside the Book, You Will Learn How To:

• Understand the evolution of modern business intelligence and the architecture behind today's data platforms
• Design reliable ETL and ELT pipelines for real-world data environments
• Work with relational databases, APIs, files, application data, and external data sources
• Choose between batch, incremental, and real-time ingestion strategies
• Clean, standardize, validate, and transform messy business data
• Handle missing values, duplicates, outliers, inconsistent records, and changing source schemas
• Design dimensional models and star schemas using fact and dimension tables
• Implement and reason about slowly changing dimensions
• Orchestrate complex pipelines with dependencies, scheduling, retries, backfills, and automation
• Monitor pipelines through logging, observability, and operational reliability practices
• Design semantic layers that keep business metrics consistent across reports and dashboards
• Build effective dashboards, reports, KPIs, and self-service analytics environments
• Understand the role of cloud data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and medallion architecture
• Explore distributed processing, streaming, and near-real-time analytics
• Apply data security, access control, privacy, governance, metadata, lineage, and responsible analytics practices
• Introduce testing, version control, CI/CD, deployment, performance optimization, scalability, and cost management into BI systems
• Think beyond individual pipelines and design complete enterprise BI platforms
• Follow an end-to-end journey from raw data to an executive dashboard

This book focuses on that reality.

You will encounter the engineering problems that often get ignored in introductory BI material: what happens when a pipeline runs twice, when data arrives late, when an upstream system changes unexpectedly, when historical records need to remain accurate, or when two departments calculate the same business metric differently.

The goal is not simply to show you how something works, but to help you understand why it works, what can go wrong, and how to design systems that can be trusted.

It is particularly suited for:

• Data engineers
• BI developers
• Analytics engineers
• Data analysts
• Software engineers
• Self-taught data professionals
• Experienced engineers
• Advanced students and technical professionals

You do not need to master every technology mentioned in the book. The emphasis is on the engineering principles, architectural patterns, trade-offs, and reasoning that remain useful even as individual tools and platforms evolve.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Modern BI Engineering
• Podnázev: Building ETL/ELT Pipelines, Data Warehouses, Analytics Platforms, and Enterprise Reporting Systems
• Autor: Caleb Reid
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 236
• EAN: 9798172069598
• ID: 53783518
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 418 g
• Rozměry: 254 × 178 × 13 mm
• Datum vydání: 05. September 2026

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