DataTalks Data Engineering Zoomcamp

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Overview

The Data Engineering Zoomcamp is a comprehensive 9-week free course covering production-ready data pipeline development. It includes hands-on modules on containerization (Docker), infrastructure as code (Terraform), workflow orchestration (Kestra), data warehousing (BigQuery), analytics engineering (dbt), data platforms (Bruin), batch processing (Spark), and streaming (Kafka).

The course operates in cohorts (next starts January 2026) but all materials are available for self-paced learning.

Prerequisites

• Basic coding experience
• SQL familiarity
• Python knowledge (helpful but not required)
• Git installed
• Docker Desktop or Docker Engine
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account (free tier)