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Christian Himpe
Christian Himpe

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My Data Engineering Library

This is neither an "Ultimate List of Data Engineering Books" nor the "Data Engineering Must-Read List", but rather my subjective recommendation for a minimal data engineering library; particularly for data engineers coming from software development, as I used to.

General

Databases

  • Forta: "SQL in 10 Minutes"; Pearson, 2010.
    • The best minimal SQL guide I found, yet.
  • Kaufmann, Meier: "SQL and NoSQL Databases"; Springer, 2019.
    • Beyond touching all the database basics, the relational (SQL), document (Mongo) and graph model (Cypher) are recurringly contrasted.

Containerization

Extra

  • Densmore: "Data Pipelines Pocket Reference"; Oreilly Media, 2021.
    • Good example-driven overview; original source of EtLT (extract, partial transform, load, transform).
  • Chromatic: "Extreme Programming Pocket Guide"; Oreilly Media, 2003.
    • Extreme programming (XP) is the sanest agile method with some good sustainability practices like the 40h week.

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