Love and hate - Excel files and data engineers
Waitingforcode
JULY 2, 2025
Even though data engineers enjoy discussing table file formats, distributed data processing, or more recently, small data, they still need to deal with legacy systems. By "legacy," I mean not only the code you or your colleagues wrote five years ago but also data formats that have been around for a long time. Despite being challenging for data engineers, these formats remain popular among business users.
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