🥉 Building the Bronze Table in Hive Metastore – Your First Layer of the Medallion 🛠️

In this week’s cloud engineering series video, we start our journey through the Medallion Architecture using Hive Metastore by building the Bronze table—your foundational data layer.

Using Spark SQL and a Synthea-generated patient dataset, I walk you through the full table creation process. Think of the Bronze layer as your raw landing zone—everything from your source data goes here first.

This week’s tutorial covers:

🧾 How to load and register a raw dataset

📐 Structuring schemas in Spark SQL

⚡ Common pitfalls to avoid when working in Hive Metastore

🔁 A sneak peek at how this Bronze table feeds into your Silver and Gold tables

This is just *one approach* to Medallion design—there’s a lot of flexibility depending on your team’s needs. And yes, we’ll be exploring **Delta Live Tables** soon too!

📊 Follow along weekly as we explore how to build resilient, scalable, and governed cloud data platforms!

👉 If your team is exploring how to modernize your data stack or scale your cloud analytics—reach out! I’d love to talk about how I can help.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWr-3RIons