Alex Merced 2/19/2026

How to Design Reliable Data Pipelines

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This technical article explains how to architect reliable data pipelines by design, not through debugging. It covers core principles like resumability and idempotency, outlines a four-layer architecture (ingestion, staging, transformation, serving), and advocates for using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) over scripts for better failure handling and parallelism.

How to Design Reliable Data Pipelines

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