Pipeline Specs and Quality Checks

Gold pipelines start as documents, not DAGs. What data quality actually means (trust plus impact), Airbnb's nine-step Midas process and when it's overkill, the anatomy of a spec that survives review, and how to choose quality checks that fit dimensions vs facts, including guardrail metrics and the checks that catch security incidents.

Gold pipelines start as documents, not DAGs. What data quality actually means (trust plus impact), Airbnb's nine-step Midas process and when it's overkill, the anatomy of a spec that survives review, and how to choose quality checks that fit dimensions vs facts, including guardrail metrics and the checks that catch security incidents.

Intermediate4 chapters· 1h 20m· in Orchestration & Pipelines

Course content

  1. 01What Data Quality Actually Means: Trust Plus ImpactFree
  2. 02The Midas Process: Nine Steps to a Gold Dataset (and When to Skip Them)🔒
  3. 03Anatomy of a Good Spec🔒
  4. 04Choosing Quality Checks: Dimensions Fail Differently Than Facts🔒

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