Conf42 Kube Native 2025 - Online

- premiere 5PM GMT

Demystifying Modern Data Pipeline Architecture: From Legacy ETL to Cloud-Native Streaming at Scale

Video size:

Abstract

Legacy ETL is dead. Learn how cloud-native streaming, medallion and lake house architectures are revolutionizing data pipelines. We’ll compare tools, tackle hybrid batch-stream challenges, and offer migration strategies, all with real-world data to back it up.

Summary

Transcript

This transcript was autogenerated. To make changes, submit a PR.
Hello everyone. I'm am Kris, a technical architect and lead data engineer at for with over 16 years of experience. My research paper is titled De-Mystifying Modern Data Pipeline Architecture from regional ETL to Cloud Native framing. Think back to a time when you had to wait all night for business report to process that was of ETL, but today the digital factory never sleeps and our data can either. My career, I've been on the frontline of this dramatic evolution, and today I'll share how we are moving from batch oriented mindset to the world of cloud native framing and what that means for how we turn data into value. Here is a look at what will cover today. We'll start with evolution of data pipeline architectures. Discussing the limitations of legacy systems. Then we'll dive into modern art pattern that emerged. We look at the two evolution landscape, examine critical design integration for building resilient pipelines, and finally look at emerging brands and practical migration s for organiz. The key takeaway of modern data engineering revolution is the shift from batch to realtime processing. The recent approach relied on schedule batch processing using centralized systems. Now, modern reality involve distributed realtime and cloud native architectures. Two main factors, drivers is the business driver. Has an intense need for immediate insight and operational intelligence. The technical driver is a demand for greater scalability, better cost efficiency, and overall flexibility in our data systems. Traditional EDL limitations, why change was inevitable. There is an EL framework facing significant constraints first batch crossing in windows, typically third overnight to avoid disruption operation systems, which severely limited data availability when businesses started demanding real-time monitoring. Second, the design meant single point of failure with limited recovery. Option that often require completely rep processing the data. Third, rigid infrastructure meant performance improvement depending on expensive hardware upgrades involving high upfront cost and complex cap capacity planning. Fourth systems were built primarily for structure data and second to handle the explosion of semi-structure logs and streaming data for new sources like. Device, devices and web application. Finally, they also suffer from vendor login. New to proprietary query extensions, the cloud storage revolution, decoupling storage from compute, the introduction of cloud storage, specifically object storage like Azure block storage or Google Cloud storage. What. Fundamental to enabling modern data architecture. The most profound change was the opening of mechanism between storage and computing. Before the loud revolution, storage and computing were tightly funnel, inexpensive switch capacity warehouses. If you needed more crossing power, you usually had to buy more storage and vice versa. After the shift, we gained access to practically unlimited. Extremely cost effective object storage, which can scale independently of our processing cluster. This adventure Freedom delivers several key benefits. First, the pay as you go. Principal model shift cost from large capital expenditures to variable operation costs, making data scale accessible to every organization. Second. Enable schema on read flexibility. We can now store raw data in its native format, applying transformation later, preserving native integrity rather than forcing it into rigid redefined ular front. Finally, cloud storage offers native redundancy, durability, and it inherent needs support all formats such as semi-structured unstructured. Which was impossible. With regional databases, modern artificial patterns, overweight as data systems make mature to handle modern cha challenges, several key artificial patterns emerge. These patterns represent different philosophies for how we secure and process data on a scale. Explore the five most influential. First, the medallion architecture. The pattern defines transparent, quality layers, bronze, silver, and gold for data refinement and curing, governance and quality. All are built into the pipeline. The Lambda architecture. This is a dual path approach using a batch layer for complete historical accuracy and free layer for real diamond sight. Copper architecture cation of Lambda. This pattern adopts a steam first model using a single processing engine and an even log as a source of truth for both realtime and historical views. The lake goes paradigm. This unified approach brings the transactional feature and performance of data warehouse directly onto the low cost storage of data link. Finally, data match. This is a less AL architecture and more organizational structure, decentralizing data ownership and reading data product owned by Nomen teams. Now I would like to discuss about the medallion architecture, the medal architecture model of Olympic medals organizers, data requirement into discrete all levels. Bronze laser layer is where raw data lands into lands without motivation, ensuring complete source fidelity, its validation focuses usually on completeness. A single layer. Is that what the foundation here? Raw data is informed by standardizing format, fixing inconsistencies, and applying quality and governance rules. The goal layer, is a data shape for business assumption. It includes purpose build structures like star S schemas, and pre aggregated metrics. The main benefit is that it is clear quality boundaries and ensures productive processing. This makes it ideal for organizations with strong governance requirement. Now, I would like to discuss about the comparison between the Lambda and the KA architecture. Lambda and KA architecture represent different philosophies for handling both. Historical and realtime data. The Lambda architecture uses batch and stream processing path. The batch path handles comprehensive historical analysis while the speed path provides immediate. If preliminary insights, its main downside are higher complexity and the necessity of dual code based maintenance for transforming logic. Architecture simplifies this by adopting a stream processing first approach. It uses a single app and only event loss as the definitive system of record batch processing is re ized as just naming with an unlimited time window. This result in simpler maintenance and unified processing model. Now I like, I would like to discuss about the lake cost. The lake of patterning represents a powerful conversion. It addresses the historical fragmentation of having separate data lakes for raw storage and aware of analytics. It augments lake flexibility, low cost storage with data warehouse performance. S features include implementing warehouse capabilities like asset transactions and schema enforcement directly on cloud storage objects. It supports multi workload support for bi ml and streaming and provides unified governance. The business impact is is the elimination of data lubrication, fragmented governance and integration headaches. Now I would like to discuss about the data match domain oriented approach. The data match pattern is less about technology, more about organization shift. Its core principle is to read data as a product owned by domain team. This is designed to solve the scaling bottleneck present with teams key. Domain oriented ownership, self serve data platform, federating governance and data products with clear interfaces and quality assurances. The primary benefit is or, and scalability and better alignment with specific business domain. The primary challenge, however, is that requires significant organization change. It's a social technical transformation. I would like to discuss about the Tool Evolution timeline. Let's look at the tool evolution Pipeline. We can segment this journey into four areas in nineties and two oh, and the focus was traditional ET tools like IBM Data stage and Informatica visual interfaces and mon monolithic batch oriented design characteristics. From 2010 to 2015, distributed processing framework like Hadoop and in horizonal scaling and old first approach between two, 2015 and 2013, we saw the rise of open source orchestration tools like Airflow and Perfect. Alongside early cloud services, these enabled processing and serverless executions from 2020 onwards, the landscape was stream first, unified processing, and ML integration. We now see real time capabilities, integrative interfaces, and specialize system for virtual learning. Modern tool categories. The current landscape has four main categories of tools, orchestration framework like Apache, airflow, and perfect focus on scheduling, depending scheduling dependencies, and monitoring the apple from actual data process. Cloud native services such as AWS Glue and Azure Data Factory offer serverless execution and consumption based pricing, fitting well with variable workloads, saving platforms like Apache Kafka and Spark streaming, or essential for low latency realtime inside. And finally crossing engines like Apache Bar Link provide the power of complex. Distributed computations US selection criteria was choosing a tool must extend beyond features to include team skills, operational requirements, cost model, and integration needs critical design consideration. Moving to modern distributed system introduces a new set of challenges and operational necess. We must address five critical design areas, data governance, and lineage. Lack racking, data provenance across complex environments, quality validations, shifting from periodic checks to continuous assurance and performance optimization, leveraging distributed techniques like partitioning, security and compliance. Implementing data centric production and access control in indonesia's challenges, managing the coexistence of real time and bad workloads, data governance and distributed systems in distributed hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Maintaining visibility is a significant c. Governance had evolved from checkbox to an operational activity. Our solution must include automated and linear tracking at multiple levels from dataset to column and even record levels of provenance for environment with in complete instrumentation, emergent techno techniques include. Lineage that uses statistical methods to infer transformation relationships. The business value is clear, rapid impact analysis during values, simplified troubleshooting of inconsistencies and necessary audit rating, failure, audit rail for compliance, quality validation framework. Data quality assurance must be must now be an continuous and automated now, not just periodic and manual. Modern framework implement multidimensional validation, syn and correctness. Semantic validating contextual appro appropriateness. Implementation architecture has evolved to distributed opponents that exhibit checks at each transformation boundary. Streaming and this is achieved to specialized operations that implement validation logic directly within the execution model related in an pattern in continuous data flow. Emerging ran serverless data processing. Looking forward. Serverless data processing represents profound paradigm shift. Key characteristics include elimination of expressing infrastructure, provisioning di, dynamic resource allocation, and a shift to consumption based pricing. This has a significant design impact, encouraging architecture, nature, some of smaller focus crossing unit with easier boundaries rather than monolithic transformation jobs. The benefits are powerful, automatic scaling, significant cost optimization, and operational simplicity. AI ML integration data pipeline meet machine learning. The integration of AI and ML has driven specialized natural innovation. Features stores have emerged as digital component. These are specialized systems that manage lifecycle of machine learning features, providing versioning access control, and ensuring consistency between training and serving modern service pipeline, integrated time inference, delivering the core data pipelines. A key requirement is point in time feature accuracy for valid modern learning and lineage lacking for modern. The business impact is faster model deployment, consistent feature engineering and unified infrastructure supporting both traditional BI and advanced ML workloads, data contracts and EMA management. Formal agreement for data exchange and data and data ecosystem. Centralized data contracts and formalized EMA management are critical for maintaining sim. The purpose of these contracts is to establish explicit agreement between data producers and consumers. Components specify data structure, quality characteristics, and delivery patterns. The main benefit is enhanced ability in distributor systems by setting clear expectations. Implemented via version schema registries, and with sophisticated compatibility, checking that validate proposed change against historical usage, prevent breaking downstream consumers migration strategies, practical approaches to modernization. Stable approach, risk, timeline, and e factors. Finally, migrating from legacy architecture is a significant under undertaking and a whole cell replacement is really feasible. We must adopt in incremental strategies, enable outline a few proven approaches, patent based modernization, identify more common crossing patterns. System and analyze usable modernization approach for each hybrid execution uses gateway component to maintain and sustain interface while underlying implementation transition. Gradually. Specialize connectors allows modern processing framework to efficiently integrate with existing data sources through adapter, patent, and format bridges, and. Domain by domain starts with non-critical businesses domain and expand progressively this low risk and low risk phase approaches. Minimize business disruptions, sorry, and allow organizations to demonstrate value incrementally. Key essential insight for data leaders. To summarize our journey, here are the key. Here are essential insights for data leaders. There's no single architecture that future lies in thoughtfully. System that aligns with specific business context, adopt incremental migration to modernize and minimize risk gradually. Governance is critical line, lacking in quality management or operational necessities. In distributed enrollments, real time is standard. Naming is a becoming basic business responsive. Finally remember that organization change is essential as a technology recommendations action items for organizations. For those looking to embark on this modern modernization journey, I offer this actions action items as this current state inventory or existing architecture and identify the key pain point. Event target state, use artificial patterns like medallion or Lake Earth that align with your strategy business needs. Start small. Begin your migration with noncritical domains or workload activities. Invest in governance, implement lineage tracking and quality framework early in the process. Build skills. Develop the necessary cloud native and streaming processing bilities within your teams. And with this I conclude thank you. This transformation is ongoing and by embracing cloud native principles and thoughtful design or nations can build the resilient, adaptable data pipeline necessary for future of operational intelligence. I note and thank you for giving me this opportunity. Thank you.
...

Vamsi Pulusu

Technical Architect @ Ford Motor Company

Vamsi Pulusu's LinkedIn account



Join the community!

Learn for free, join the best tech learning community

Newsletter
$ 0 /mo

Event notifications, weekly newsletter

Access to all content