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The Rise of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

Unlike data scientists — and inspired by our more mature parent, software engineering  — data engineers build tools, infrastructure, frameworks, and services. In fact, it’s arguable that data engineering is much closer to software engineering than it is to a data science.

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Data News — Week 23.14

Christophe Blefari

I still firmly believe that this is not the role of a data engineer. A data engineer should still be a software engineer working with data, empowering others with tooling and apps. Data modeling should not be a required data engineer skill. Enters the analytics engineer. I hope he will fill the gaps.

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Data News — Week 13.14

Christophe Blefari

I still firmly believe that this is not the role of a data engineer. A data engineer should still be a software engineer working with data, empowering others with tooling and apps. Data modeling should not be a required data engineer skill. Enters the analytics engineer. I hope he will fill the gaps.

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Every Company is Becoming a Software Company

Confluent

Here, the bank loan business division has essentially become software. Of course, this is not to imply that companies will become only software (there are still plenty of people in even the most software-centric companies), just that the full scope of the business is captured in an integrated software defined process.

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How to manage and schedule dbt

Christophe Blefari

But this article is not about the pricing which can be very subjective depending on the context—what is 1200$ for dev tooling when you pay them more than $150k per year, yes it's US-centric but relevant. But before sending your code to production you still want to validate some stuff, static or not, in the CI/CD pipelines.

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Data Engineering is typically a software engineering role that focuses deeply on data – namely, data workflows, data pipelines, and the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. What is the role of a Data Engineer? Data Engineers are skilled professionals who lay the foundation of databases and architecture.

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Top-Paying Data Engineer Jobs in Singapore [2023 Updated]

Knowledge Hut

Engineers work with Data Scientists to help make the most of the data they collect and have deep knowledge of distributed systems and computer science. In large organizations, data engineers concentrate on analytical databases, operate data warehouses that span multiple databases, and are responsible for developing table schemas.