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Preparation Topics

Certainly! Here’s a curated list of specific topics to focus on for both Data Engineering and Machine
Learning Engineering roles. These topics cover essential concepts, tools, and practical skills to
strengthen your preparation.

🚀 Data Engineering Topics


1. ETL Pipelines and Data Processing

Concepts: Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL), ELT processes.

Tools: Apache Spark, PySpark, AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, Talend, Informatica.
Skills: Data cleaning, enrichment, normalization, deduplication, error handling.

2. Big Data Technologies

Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Hive, Pig.


Apache Spark: Spark Core, RDDs, DataFrames, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming.

Apache Kafka: Data ingestion, real-time streaming, Kafka topics, brokers, partitions.

3. Data Warehousing

Schemas: Star schema, Snowflake schema.


OLAP vs OLTP: Use cases and differences.

Technologies: Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake.

4. Cloud Platforms

AWS: S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift.

GCP: BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Dataproc.


Azure: Blob Storage, Synapse Analytics, Data Factory.

5. SQL and NoSQL Databases

SQL: Complex queries, indexing, partitioning, window functions.

NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis.

6. Data Modeling

Normalization and Denormalization.

Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagrams.


Performance Optimization: Indexing, partitioning, and caching.

7. Performance Tuning
Spark Optimization: Caching, partitioning, shuffling, broadcast joins.

Query Optimization: EXPLAIN plans, indexing strategies.


Monitoring Tools: Spark UI, Prometheus, Grafana.

8. Workflow Orchestration

Apache Airflow: DAGs, tasks, operators, scheduling.


Other Tools: Luigi, Prefect.

🤖 Machine Learning Engineering Topics


1. Machine Learning Algorithms

Supervised Learning: Linear Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, SVMs.


Unsupervised Learning: K-Means Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering.
Deep Learning: Neural Networks, CNNs, RNNs.

2. Feature Engineering

Handling missing data, scaling, encoding categorical variables.


Dimensionality Reduction: PCA, t-SNE.

3. Model Deployment

Frameworks: Flask, FastAPI.


Deployment Platforms: AWS SageMaker, GCP AI Platform, Docker, Kubernetes.

4. MLOps

CI/CD for ML: Model versioning, automated testing.


Tools: MLflow, Kubeflow, TensorFlow Serving.

5. Data Preprocessing with PySpark

Using PySpark MLlib for large-scale data preprocessing.


Pipelines, transformations, and feature extraction.

6. Real-Time Data Processing

Streaming frameworks like Spark Streaming and Kafka Streams.

7. Performance Monitoring

Tracking model drift, accuracy, and performance over time.

Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, TensorBoard.

8. Python Libraries

ML Libraries: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.


Data Processing: Pandas, NumPy.
Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn.

📌 Preparation Strategy
1. Hands-On Practice:
Work on end-to-end projects integrating data pipelines with ML models and deploy them in the
cloud.

2. Mock Interviews:
Practice answering scenario-based and problem-solving questions.
3. Document Your Projects:
Prepare concise explanations of your projects, challenges faced, and optimizations applied.
4. Stay Updated:
Follow trends in Data Engineering and Machine Learning on platforms like Medium, Towards
Data Science, and LinkedIn.

This comprehensive approach will help you prepare thoroughly and confidently for any Data
Engineering or ML Engineering role.

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