Announcing My Book : Practical Lakehouse Architecture
The first 2 chapters are now available on O'Reilly Learning Platform
Dear friends,
It’s the best time to be in Pune as we all celebrate the Ganeshotsav here. On this special occasion, I’m super happy to announce the “Early Release” of the first two chapters of my upcoming book — Practical Lakehouse Architecture.
Book Overview
This book is a guide for all data practitioners who want to implement a modern data platform to support their organization's data and analytics use cases. The book discusses the topics below with a practical viewpoint to implement a scalable, cost-effective solution using the lakehouse architecture.
Lakehouse concepts and how it is different from data warehouse and data lake.
Features and benefits of using a lakehouse architecture.
Different open file formats and open table formats options to implement a lakehouse.
How to maintain metadata in data catalogs and different compute engines for analyzing data.
Key design considerations for selecting tools and platforms while implementing a lakehouse to support your use cases.
Solution design and reference architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Databricks.
Starting your data journey with a lakehouse architecture in the modern data world.
Who should read my book?
The book is for all data practitioners - whether you are a data engineer, data analyst, data scientist, data architect, admin, or data leader. Each one of you will find important discussions around practical challenges and solutions while implementing a data platform.
Why you should read my book?
I’ve been in the data world for 18+ years and have worked on traditional on-prem warehouses, Hadoop ecosystems, and modern cloud implementations. Thanks to all my wonderful colleagues, mentors, customers, vendor partners, and leaders, I got opportunities to work on different aspects of data architecture and data management and learn from them. I’ve tried to jot down all these experiences while writing this book so that I can share my experiences with all of you.
This book will help you to understand the key concepts in an easy language with practical examples from my personal experiences.
Where can you read my book?
Since the book is in its early stages, you can get access to the “raw and unedited” digital version of the first 2 chapters. I’ll update you when new chapters get added to the digital version.
The book is currently available on the O’Reilly learning platform, and you can access it using the below link and instructions.
Practical Lakehouse Architecture
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Book Feedback
And finally, if you have any feedback, comments, or suggestions or just want to drop in a “hello”, please email me at
lakehousebookfeedback@gmail.com
I’d like to thank the O’Reilly team for the opportunity to write this book and all the editors and their continuous help to reach this first milestone. Stay tuned as we add new chapters to this book, and I look forward to hearing your feedback. Thank You!