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Certificate in Big Data Technologies 

Certificate in Big Data Technologies
 at 
Washington University 
Overview

Complete this program and engineer your career in the world of big data technologies

Duration

8 months

Total fee

3.31 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Certificate in Big Data Technologies
 at 
Washington University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from University of Washington
  • Get hand on experience of Write code for big data processing
  • Configure and deploy frameworks and libraries to run big data software
  • Top Employers: Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Phillips, Seattle Genetics
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Certificate in Big Data Technologies
 at 
Washington University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For professionals with programming, database and system administration experience who are looking to expand their careers into big data
What are the course deliverables?
  • 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.)
More about this course
  • In today's job market, big data is ho 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, explore distributed computing and the practical tools used to store and process data before it can be analyzed
  • Work with typical data stacks and gain experience with the kinds of data flow situations commonly used to inform key business decisions

Certificate in Big Data Technologies
 at 
Washington University 
Curriculum

Introduction to data engineering

The fundamentals of modern big data stacks, their uses, advantages and limitations

How functional programming ideas help with building and using systems to store and process big data

The foundations of the Hadoop ecosystem and its emerging successors

The ins and outs of big data processing via multiple paradigms, both storage-bound and in-memory (Spark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Hive, SQL)

The origins, uses and limitations of NoSQL stores (HBase, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, graph-processing systems, etc.)

Building the data pipeline

How a data lake can enhance the usability of your organization's data

Batch and streaming processing using Spark, Flink and other processing tools

How to use Kafka to enable low-latency and real-time processing

Data acquisition and modeling techniques

Pipeline design and integration

Capstone

How to design and implement a data lake for a multichannel retail organization in Azure Data Lake and Azure Databricks using a multi-hop, medallion architecture

Ways to efficiently and performantly ingest, transform and land big data workloads using Apache Spark

How to build a feature data set for a machine learning model

Diagnosis and tuning of common performance pitfalls in Spark jobs

How to design, orchestrate and curate data sets based on business requirements

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Certificate in Big Data Technologies
 at 
Washington University 
Faculty details

Jerry Kuch
Jerry Kuch has worked in large companies, including Microsoft, EMC and VMware, small startups and as a consultant. His work has included projects in computer security, operating systems, virtual machines, network appliances, distributed systems, high-level language implementation, mathematical and statistical computing, messaging-based middleware, big data and cloud computing.

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