What actually is a data pipeline?

If you’ve wondered this yourself at least 100 hundred times but could never find the time to figure out what they look like in practice, then keep reading.

I’m Claudia and I’m a Software Engineer in the UK. I’ve recently started a new role as a data engineer, and had to face the hard reality that I didn’t have a clue about what a data pipeline actually was in the context of big data and distributed systems.