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A list of useful resources to learn Data Engineering from scratch
4.0K starsJun 19, 2024 pushdata-analysisData PipelineClaude Code
$ npx skills add adilkhash/Data-Engineering-HowToAlternatives
Practical Data Engineering alternatives for AI agents.
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Practical Data Engineering: A Hands-On Real-Estate Project Guide
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Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React
4.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add rudderlabs/rudder-server#3
🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.
1.7K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdata-analysisRubyData Pipeline
$ npx skills add Multiwoven/multiwoven#4
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
46K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add apache/airflow#5
Memphis.dev is a highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform
3.4K starsMar 2, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add superstreamlabs/memphis#6
10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!
36K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdata-analysisJupyter NotebookData Analysis
$ npx skills add microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners#7
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
13K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add debezium/debezium#8
Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement. No JVM required.
600 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add ConduitIO/conduit#9
Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool
6.4K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add apache/flink-cdc#10
The leader in Customer Data Infrastructure
7.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdata-analysisScalaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add snowplow/snowplow#11
🌊 Continuously synchronize the systems where your data lives, to the systems where you _want_ it to live, by managing your data flows with Estuary. 🌊
936 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustData Pipeline
$ npx skills add estuary/flow#12
Modern SeaTunnel Web UI with visual DAG pipelines, batch & streaming sync, connector management, built-in metrics, and runtime logs.
505 starsJun 14, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptData Pipeline
$ npx skills add weifuwan/seatunnel-web#13
An open-source data logging library for machine learning models and data pipelines. 📚 Provides visibility into data quality & model performance over time. 🛡️ Supports privacy-preserving data collection, ensuring safety & robustness. 📈
2.8K starsJan 10, 2025 pushdata-analysisJupyter NotebookData Pipeline
$ npx skills add whylabs/whylogs#14
ingestr is a CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly.
3.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add bruin-data/ingestr#15
Example end to end data engineering project.
1.4K starsDec 8, 2022 pushdata-analysisPythonData Pipeline
$ npx skills add damklis/DataEngineeringProject#16
OLake - Fastest Databases, Kafka & S3 Replication to Apache Iceberg with Table optimization (Called OLake Fusion). ⚡ Efficient, quick and scalable data ingestion for real-time analytics. Supported sources : Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, MSSql, DB2, Kafka, S3.
1.4K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add datazip-inc/olakeHow to choose
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