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Behram Irani
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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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Data ingestion using AWS Glue

In our data lake in Chapter 2, we introduced Glue Data Catalog, which is one of the key components of data lake design. Glue is also a popular ETL tool for data engineers, who want to ingest data from the source systems and transform the data as it flows between the different layers of the data lake. Glue provides complete flexibility to deal with any kind of data engineering complexity. In essence, Glue ETL can help extract data from any source system, transform it, and load it into any target system.

Since this chapter is all about batch data ingestion and we want to keep most of our focus on ingesting data into the data lake in S3, we will focus on those use cases. We have a dedicated chapter for data processing later, where we will revisit Glue ETL.

Use case for data ingestion using modern ETL techniques

The business at GreatFin wants to derive value from all the data available in its existing data stores; some are stored in older-generation...

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Behram Irani

Behram Irani is currently a technology leader with Amazon Web Services (AWS) specializing in data, analytics and AI/ML. He has spent over 18 years in the tech industry helping organizations, from start-ups to large-scale enterprises, modernize their data platforms. In the last 6 years working at AWS, Behram has been a thought leader in the data, analytics and AI/ML space; publishing multiple papers and leading the digital transformation efforts for many organizations across the globe. Behram has completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune and has an MBA degree from the University of Florida.
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