Welcome to "Data Engineering at Scale," a course designed to immerse you into the fascinating world of large-scale data management, processing, and analytics. Throughout this course, we will focus on a mythical but powerful application called the "Epidemic Engine". This application gathers information about potential health events, aggregates this data, publishes it in diverse ways, and ultimately attempts to predict epidemics. The Epidemic Engine, while hypothetical, embodies the principles and challenges of real-world data engineering systems that power today's most innovative technologies, from social networks to streaming platforms to cutting-edge AI research.

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