Playbooks & How-Tos

Guides for Data Engineering Leaders

Micro playbooks highlighting modernization, maintainability, governance, and operational excellence tactics that data teams can adopt immediately.
  • 9 tactical guides
  • 7 disciplines from modernization to resilience
  • Built from on-the-ground Undraleu and modernization work
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Modernization
Quality
Governance
Discipline
Operations
Maintainability
Resilience
Modernization

ETL Best Practices for Cloud Migration

Practical best practices to prepare legacy ETL pipelines for cloud platforms like ADF, AWS Glue, Databricks, and IDMC.

CoeurData Editorial Team5 min read

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Quality

How to Detect Tool Abuse in ETL Tools

A guide to identifying misuse of ETL tools that leads to poor performance, maintainability issues, or architectural drift.

CoeurData Editorial Team4 min read

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Quality

Common ETL Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

A practical guide to common ETL anti-patterns that hurt performance, reliability, and maintainability, plus better designs to replace them.

CoeurData Editorial Team6 min read

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Governance

ETL Code Review Checklist: 27 Things to Check Before Go-Live

A practical ETL code review checklist covering structure, performance, housekeeping, data quality, governance, and deployment readiness.

CoeurData Editorial Team7 min read

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Discipline

Naming Standards and Design Conventions for ETL

Practical naming and design conventions that improve clarity, consistency, and maintainability across ETL and ELT pipelines.

CoeurData Editorial Team3 min read

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Operations

Housekeeping & Operational Readiness for ETL Pipelines

Key housekeeping and operational readiness practices for stable, observable, and well-run ETL and ELT pipelines.

CoeurData Editorial Team4 min read

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Maintainability

Maintainability Checklist for Data Pipelines

A practical maintainability checklist covering naming, modularity, documentation, testing, and configuration management.

CoeurData Editorial Team4 min read

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Resilience

How to Build Restartable and Resilient Data Pipelines

Design principles for resilient and restartable ETL and ELT pipelines that can recover from failures gracefully.

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Governance

Vendor SLA Template for ETL Code Quality

A practical SLA template for enforcing ETL and ELT code quality standards with external vendors and development partners.

CoeurData Editorial Team5 min read

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Guide Categories

Modernization

1

Quality

2

Governance

2

Discipline

1

Operations

1

Maintainability

1

Resilience

1