Data Pipelines
Python data pipeline patterns covering ETL architecture, Polars for high-performance processing, Prefect orchestration, idempotency, and production best practices.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Data Pipelines: Modular ETL (extract/transform/load functions). Polars over Pandas for performance. Prefect for orchestration. Idempotent with delete-write pattern. Functional transforms (pure functions). Schema validation at boundaries. Incremental processing. DuckDB for SQL transforms. Parquet for intermediate storage.
Use When
- ETL/ELT pipeline development
- Data warehouse loading
- Batch data processing
- ML feature pipelines
Skip When
- Real-time streaming (use Kafka/Flink)
- Simple scripts (overkill)
- Data already in warehouse
Data Pipelines
Python data pipeline patterns covering ETL architecture, Polars for high-performance processing, Prefect orchestration, idempotency, and production best practices.