Summary
In this chapter, you have learned about the full data life cycle, and you became familiar with DataOps and the modern data platform concepts that make it possible to develop data projects with similar way of working and to achieve the same satisfaction level as software projects developed using a DevOps approach.
Well done!
We introduced the figure of the analytics engineer, who takes the central role of building the core of a modern data platform, and we saw the best practices and principles that we can adopt from software engineering to make our work on data projects more reliable and satisfying for us and other stakeholders.
With this chapter, we close the first part of this book, which has introduced you to the key elements of data engineering and will enable you to better understand how we work with dbt.
In the next chapter, Agile Data Engineering with dbt, you will start to learn about the core functionalities of dbt and you will start building the first models...
