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Published inSep 2023
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Brian Lipp
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Brian Lipp

Brian Lipp is a Technology Polyglot, Engineer, and Solution Architect with a wide skillset in many technology domains. His programming background has ranged from R, Python, and Scala, to Go and Rust development. He has worked on Big Data systems, Data Lakes, data warehouses, and backend software engineering. Brian earned a Master of Science, CSIS from Pace University in 2009. He is currently a Sr. Data Engineer working with large Tech firms to build Data Ecosystems.
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Technical requirements

The tooling used in this chapter is tied to the tech stack chosen for the book. All vendors should offer a free trial account.

I will be using the following:

  • Databricks
  • AWS
  • Tableau Desktop
  • Python
  • SQL
  • dbt

Setting up your environment

Before we begin our chapter, let’s take the time to set up our working environment.

Python, AWS, and Databricks

As we have with previous chapters, this chapter assumes you have a working version of Python of 3.6 or above release installed in your development environment. We will also assume you have set up an AWS account and Databricks with that account.

Databricks CLI

The Databricks CLI is used to create our Databricks infrastructure; before we can create anything, we must first make sure it’s set up correctly.

Installation and setup

The first step is to install the databricks-cli tool using the pip python package manager:

pip install databricks-cli

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Brian Lipp

Brian Lipp is a Technology Polyglot, Engineer, and Solution Architect with a wide skillset in many technology domains. His programming background has ranged from R, Python, and Scala, to Go and Rust development. He has worked on Big Data systems, Data Lakes, data warehouses, and backend software engineering. Brian earned a Master of Science, CSIS from Pace University in 2009. He is currently a Sr. Data Engineer working with large Tech firms to build Data Ecosystems.
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