data-pipeline-patterns

data-pipeline-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (4,810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to data pipelines, which move and transform data between systems using batch jobs, streams, or smaller recurring batches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing ETL or ELT jobs, stream processors, message consumers, schedulers, orchestration workflows, and large-scale data transfers.
Why use it?
It helps find designs that silently lose data, create duplicates, stall, or fail to resume correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when reviewing ETL or ELT jobs, stream processors, message consumers, schedulers, orchestration workflows, and large-scale data transfers.

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npx skills add mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills --skill data-pipeline-patterns
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skills/data-pipeline-patterns/SKILL.md · 531 lines

How it starts

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Data Pipeline Patterns for Code Review

Overview

Pipelines fail silently, duplicate records, or stall under backpressure — often in production, at scale, and without clear error messages. Use this guide when reviewing data ingestion, transformation, or delivery code to catch structural hazards before they cause data loss or corruption.

When to use: Reviewing ETL/ELT jobs, stream processors, batch schedulers, orchestration DAGs, message consumers, or any code that moves data between systems at scale.

Quick Reference

Pattern Core Idea Primary Red Flag
ETL vs ELT Transform before or after load based on compute location Transforming in application code when the warehouse can do it cheaper
Batch vs Streaming vs Micro-Batch Select processing model to match latency and throughput requirements Streaming when latency does not matter; polling when event triggers exist
Idempotency / Exactly-Once Safe re-runs produce the same result No idempotency key; INSERT without upsert guard; re-run creates duplicates
Watermarking / Checkpointing Track progress so pipelines resume without reprocessing No checkpoint state; always reprocessing from epoch on restart
Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) Route unprocessable records for later inspection Silently dropping failed records; no DLQ monitoring alert
Backpressure / Flow Control Producer slows down when consumer cannot keep up Unbounded in-memory queues; producer ignores consumer lag
Schema Evolution / Data Contracts Backwards-compatible schema changes with explicit contracts Breaking schema changes deployed without consumer coordination
Pipeline Orchestration / DAG Explicit dependency graph with retries, SLAs, and alerting Linear scripts with no dependency tracking, no retry, no alerting

Patterns in Detail

1. ETL vs ELT Decision Framework

When to use ETL (Extract → Transform → Load):

  • Sensitive data must be masked or anonymized before entering the warehouse
  • Target system has no compute capacity (legacy database, constrained storage)
  • Transformation logic is complex and not expressible in SQL

Read the full file on GitHub · 531 lines

Changes

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 531 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 713e5786e6af

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data-pipeline-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,810 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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