# Data Pipeline Foundations - Everything You Need To Know About Data Pipelines

DevFeed: [Data Pipeline Foundations - Everything You Need To Know About Data Pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/data-pipeline-foundations-everything-you-need-to-know-about-data-pipelines-37141.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://seattledataguy.substack.com/p/data-pipeline-foundations-everything>)

Author: SeattleDataGuy

Published: 2026-04-18T15:50:56Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SeattleDataGuy's Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/seattledataguy-s-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [Data pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-pipelines.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipelines.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [sftp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sftp.md>)

## AI overview

This article serves as a central collection of introductory resources about data pipelines. It explains that pipelines move data from sources to destinations and highlights sources such as S3 buckets, SFTP files, APIs, and databases.

## Source excerpt

Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋