Waqas Ahmad — Software Architect & Technical Consultant - Available USA, Europe, Global

Waqas Ahmad — Software Architect & Technical Consultant

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👋 Hi, I'm Waqas — a Software Architect and Technical Consultant specializing in .NET, Azure, microservices, and API-first system design..
I help companies build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance backend platforms that scale.

Experienced across engineering ecosystems shaped by Microsoft, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation.

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Definition

Tracks what was already processed; essential for incremental batch and for late data in streaming.

As defined in the knowledge graph

  • Value that marks how far we have processed; used for incremental loads so we do not reprocess full history every run. — From: Data Engineering on Azure: Pipelines, Lakehouse, and Analytics at Scale

Related concepts

Concepts linked in the knowledge graph:

Incremental LoadPipeline

Articles mentioning this concept

Deep dives and guides that cover this topic:

Data Engineering on Azure: Pipelines, Lakehouse, and Analytics at ScaleData Engineering: Batch vs Streaming In-Depth