Performance Engineering for Data Systems

About This Course

This Specialization equips data engineers and database professionals with comprehensive skills to optimize performance across SQL databases, data warehouses, and Apache Spark environments. Through eleven hands-on courses, learners progress from SQL query optimization and schema design to advanced topics including cloud infrastructure engineering, disaster recovery architecture, and distributed system tuning. You will analyze execution plans, implement strategic partitioning and caching, design cost-effective multi-cluster architectures, and apply Infrastructure as Code for resilient data platforms. By completion, you will possess the technical expertise to diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation, and build scalable data systems that deliver measurable business value while maintaining security and reliability standards.

Instructor

Coursera