The best way to actually understand data engineering is to build something that breaks, fix it, and watch it successfully run. In this article, we build an ETL pipeline that pulls data from the News API , cleans it up using pandas , and loads it into a local PostgreSQL database. If you are a beginner Python developer or just getting into data engineering, this one is for you! The Goal & The Architecture Before writing a single line of code, let’s look at what we are actually trying to achieve: E