If you’ve been on LinkedIn for any amount of time you’ll see posts that say: “Be consistent. Post every day on LinkedIn and your life will change” That “change” has been both good and bad. Some of the tradeoffs between stress, authenticity, audience-building, and engagement are hard to grapple with. …

Career transitions can be challenging at best and stressful at worst. When I was working at Facebook back in 2018, I felt one of those career transitions becoming more imminent. Near the end of my time at Facebook, data engineering was something that was starting to feel boring. It felt…

Low-code/no-code tools are all the rave in data engineering. Why write SQL and Python when you can just click a few buttons and have your pipeline taken care of? Companies like Fivetran and Talend make low-code ETL pretty straightforward. Are we witnessing the death of programming and the rise of…

Data has been part of our identity as humans since the time of the ancient Romans. Our growing interconnectivity caused us to bump into scale issues during the 1880 US census. We’ve gone from 0% of the world on the internet to 59.5% of the world. 4.32 billion people with…

Data engineering has experienced some meteoric growth over the last few years. With this growth, has come the proliferation of pipelines. The proliferation of pipelines has caused the proliferation of bad pipelines since data engineering is difficult to get right on the first attempt. As a data engineer, you should…