r/dataengineering
ActiveData Engineering
News & discussion on Data Engineering topics, including but not limited to: data pipelines, databases, data formats, storage, data modeling, data governance, cleansing, NoSQL, distributed systems, streaming, batch, Big Data, and workflow engines.
Members
255,630
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2015
February 6, 2015
Total posts
69.3K
archived
Total comments
622.3K
archived
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