Courses by Andreas Kretz

Azure Data Pipelines with Terraform
Azure is becoming an increasingly popular platform for companies using the Microsoft365 ecosystem. If you want to enhance your data engineering skills...
4 hours 20 minutes 29 seconds

Machine Learning & Containers on AWS
In this practical course, you will learn how to build a complete data pipeline on the AWS platform - from obtaining data from the Twitter API to analysis, stora
1 hour 33 minutes 34 seconds

Storing & Visualizing Time Series Data
Processing, storing, and visualizing time series data is becoming an increasingly important task. From IoT data and system logs to statistics...
2 hours 11 minutes 34 seconds

Contact Tracing with Elasticsearch
In this exciting engineering project, you will learn to track user movements through their phone scans. The goal of the project is to use...
1 hour 37 minutes 3 seconds

Dockerized ETL With AWS, TDengine & Grafana
Data engineers often need to quickly set up a simple ETL script that just does its job. In this project, you will learn how to easily implement...
29 minutes 12 seconds

Streaming with Kafka & Spark
This course is a comprehensive project with a full cycle of real-time data processing. You will work with data from an online store, including invoices...
2 hours 46 minutes 25 seconds

Data Engineering on AWS
This course is the perfect start for those who want to learn cloud technologies and start working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most popular..
4 hours 46 minutes 38 seconds

Data Engineering on GCP
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the most popular cloud platforms in the world, providing an extensive set of tools and services for building...
1 hour 17 minutes 33 seconds

Modern Data Warehouses & Data Lakes
As a data engineer, you will regularly work with analytics platforms where companies store data in Data Lakes and Data Warehouses for building...
58 minutes 9 seconds

dbt for Data Engineers
dbt (data build tool) is a data transformation tool with a priority on SQL. It allows for simple and transparent transformation, testing, and documentation...
1 hour 52 minutes 55 seconds

Snowflake for Data Engineers
Snowflake is a next-generation cloud data warehouse that everyone is talking about today. The platform operates 100% in the cloud, providing flexible access...
2 hours 4 minutes 8 seconds

Apache Kafka Fundamentals
In this course, you will acquire the basic knowledge necessary for confidently starting to work with Apache Kafka. You will learn how to set up a message...
1 hour 4 minutes 52 seconds

Data Engineering on Databricks
Databricks is one of the most popular platforms for data processing using Apache Spark and creating modern data warehouses (Lakehouse).
1 hour 27 minutes 29 seconds

Schema Design Data Stores
During my coaching sessions, one important topic repeatedly comes up - designing diagrams. Therefore, I decided to create a separate course in the academy to...
2 hours 30 minutes 25 seconds

Learning Apache Spark
After building data pipelines, data processing is one of the most important tasks in Data Engineering. As a data engineer, you constantly encounter...
1 hour 44 minutes 4 seconds

Log Analysis with Elasticsearch
For a data engineer, one of the main tasks is to monitor how the pipelines are working and promptly identify errors. When something goes wrong, finding the...
59 minutes 42 seconds

Choosing Data Stores
One of the key tasks when creating a data platform and pipelines is the selection of appropriate data storage systems. This course is dedicated to that topic.
1 hour 25 minutes 31 seconds

MongoDB Fundamentals
Document-oriented databases are rapidly gaining popularity among NoSQL solutions. Working with JSON documents in MongoDB is convenient, flexible, and...
1 hour 23 minutes 19 seconds

Apache Airflow Workflow Orchestration
Apache Airflow is a platform-independent tool for workflow orchestration that provides extensive capabilities for creating and...
1 hour 18 minutes 41 seconds

Building APIs with FastAPI
API is the foundation of any modern data platform. You either provide an API for clients or use external APIs yourself. In any case, it's important to be...
1 hour 35 minutes 40 seconds

Platform & Pipeline Security
A reliable security concept for platforms and pipelines is critically important. Almost anyone can put together a Proof of Concept without an adequate level...
34 minutes 46 seconds

Data Platform & Pipeline Design
Data pipelines are a key component of any Data Science platform. Without them, data loading and machine learning model deployment would not be possible. This...
1 hour 59 minutes 5 seconds

Docker Fundamentals
Docker is one of the most popular open-source platforms that every data engineer should know. It is a modern and lightweight alternative to virtual...
1 hour 17 minutes 4 seconds

Introduction to Data Engineering 2025
This introductory course will help you better understand what data engineering is and what role a data engineer plays in the field of Data Science. To begin...
44 minutes 26 seconds

Becoming a Better Data Engineer
Data engineering is not just about moving information from one place to another. It is about creating reliable, scalable, and efficient systems that...
1 hour 46 minutes 10 seconds

Computer Science Fundamentals
As in any field, strong fundamental knowledge forms the foundation for everything else. That is why this course is your first step on the path to a profession..
1 hour 30 minutes 17 seconds

Python for Data Engineers
If you want to take your skills in Data Engineering to the next level - you are in the right place. Python has become the primary language for data analysis...
2 hours 21 minutes 18 seconds

Successful Job Application
In today's competitive job market, it is extremely important to have the skills and knowledge that will help you stand out from the crowd and secure the...
3 hours 20 minutes 15 seconds

SQL for Data Engineers
SQL is the foundation for working with relational databases. And if you are planning to work in the field of Data Engineering, knowing SQL is not just a...
1 hour 51 minutes