Nested JSON for Data Engineers: Staff+ Level

Schema drift at 2 AM. Who gets paged?

Schema drift at 2 AM. Who gets paged?

Category

Python

Difficulty

advanced

Duration

25 minutes

Challenges

0 hands-on challenges

Topics covered: Schema Registry and Avro: The Kafka Contract Layer, Delta Auto Loader and _rescued_data: Schema Evolution in Practice, Platform-Native Semi-Structured Types: VARIANT, SUPER, STRUCT, Bronze/Silver Pattern for Heterogeneous JSON, BigQuery Nested STRUCT and Redshift SUPER: Query Patterns

Lesson Sections

1. Schema Registry and Avro: The Kafka Contract Layer

2. Delta Auto Loader and _rescued_data: Schema Evolution in Practice

3. Platform-Native Semi-Structured Types: VARIANT, SUPER, STRUCT

4. Bronze/Silver Pattern for Heterogeneous JSON

5. BigQuery Nested STRUCT and Redshift SUPER: Query Patterns