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There are 5 modules in this course
Build production-grade ETL pipelines in Rust that never drop rows silently and never panic on malformed input. In five weeks you will design the Extract boundary with serde-typed readers, enforce a Transform totality contract where every row either yields a validated record or flows through a structured error channel, and emit NDJSON and CSV from the same typed pipeline using the Write trait. You will master thiserror enums, ? propagation, proptest-based property testing, round-trip invariants, and the stderr-vs-stdout separation that makes every pipeline run auditable. The course closes with a preview of how the same contracts migrate to async with tokio — same invariants, different runtime. Every concept is demonstrated with real Rust code the instructor authored in the public repository, not pseudocode. This is the course for engineers who have shipped a Python ETL script that lost data at 2 a.m. and want the Rust type system to make that incident impossible.
Covers ETL pattern, type safety, Rust vs. Bash/Python, ReaderBuilder, and StringRecord.
What's included
5 videos4 readings1 assignment
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5 videos•Total 13 minutes
Why Typed Pipelines Beat Bash Glue•3 minutes
CSV Ingestion with csv::ReaderBuilder•3 minutes
Deriving Deserialize for CSV Rows•2 minutes
When Row 847 Is Garbage•3 minutes
Files, Stdin, Byte Slices: The Read Trait•3 minutes
4 readings•Total 40 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Extract — The Input Boundary•30 minutes
Transform — The Business Logic Layer
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
Covers totality invariant, audit compliance, transform signature, error channel, and accumulation vs. short-circuit.
What's included
6 videos4 readings1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 18 minutes
The Totality Contract: Zero Data Loss•3 minutes
Validation and Rejection•3 minutes
Normalizing Fields: Dollars to Cents•3 minutes
Deriving Computed Columns•3 minutes
Composing Filter, Map, and Enrich•3 minutes
Accumulating Results Without unwrap•3 minutes
4 readings•Total 40 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
Transform — The Business Logic Layer•5 minutes
Load — The Output Boundary
Module 3•1 hour to complete
Module details
Covers NDJSON format, serde_json::to_string(), NDJSON advantages, serde Serialize, and csv::Writer.
Covers thin orchestrator, function composition, exit codes, thiserror derive, and ? propagation.
What's included
6 videos4 readings1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 16 minutes
Wiring E→T→L in main•2 minutes
Formalizing Errors with thiserror•3 minutes
Property-Based Testing for Pipelines•3 minutes
Integration Tests with Fixture Data•3 minutes
Structured Pipeline Reporting•2 minutes
From Sync to Async: What C4 Changes•3 minutes
4 readings•Total 40 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
Key Terms•10 minutes
Reflection•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
Composition, Testing, and Observability•5 minutes
Capstone
Module 5•1 hour to complete
Module details
Integrate every stage of the ETL pipeline into one end-to-end Rust
program. The capstone has two tracks: a local Cargo project with a
passing test suite and a zero-install Playground reading that runs
end-to-end in any browser at play.rust-lang.org.
What's included
4 readings1 assignment
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4 readings•Total 31 minutes
Capstone•10 minutes
Rust Playground Exercise•10 minutes
Before You Go•1 minute
Next Steps•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Final Graded Quiz•30 minutes
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