# Data Pipeline

> A data pipeline is an automated flow that moves and processes data from sources to destinations — ingesting, cleaning, transforming and delivering it for analytics, reporting or AI. Reliable pipelines are the backbone of any data-driven product.

*Source: https://www.lazlosoftwaresolution.com/glossary/data-pipeline*

Production pipelines are orchestrated, monitored and idempotent so they can recover from failures without corrupting data. They feed dashboards, machine-learning features and retrieval indexes with fresh, trustworthy data.