The Signal

Data Pipeline Dispatch

A journalist at The Daily Beacon has a tip: a mysterious signal of unknown origin is embedded inside a public social media API — and a source at Harmon University believes it may be extraterrestrial. You're the paper's data specialist, racing to build a pipeline that captures the encrypted fragments before they vanish. Call APIs, extract payloads, design storage, wire an Airflow DAG — and decode a message that was never meant for us.