About this Program

In today’s job market, big data is hot — and so are data engineers, the professionals who have the knowledge and skills to tame it. Organizations have a growing need for specialists who know how to design and build platforms that can handle the gigantic amount of data available today.

In this three-course certificate program, we’ll explore distributed computing and the practical tools used to store and process data before it can be analyzed. You’ll work with typical data stacks and gain experience with the kinds of data flow situations commonly used to inform key business decisions. Complete this program and engineer your career in the world of big data technologies.

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Designed for

Professionals with programming, database and system administration experience who are looking to expand their careers into big data.

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What You'll Learn

• The fundamentals of big data stacks, their uses, advantages and limitations
• Key background in distributed systems, cloud computing, relational databases and key-value stores
• The foundations of the Hadoop big data ecosystem and beyond (MapReduce, Hive, Spark, SQL, non-relational processing)
• The pros and cons of batch processing versus in-memory processing
• The uses and limitations of NoSQL stores (HBase, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, etc.)

Get Hands-on Experience

• Write code for big data processing
• Configure and deploy frameworks and libraries to run big data software