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Data Engineering Weekly #203

Data Engineering Weekly

With Astro, you can build, run, and observe your data pipelines in one place, ensuring your mission critical data is delivered on time. This blog captures the current state of Agent adoption, emerging software engineering roles, and the use case category. link] Jack Vanlightly: Table format interoperability, future or fantasy?

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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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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 scientists and data Analysts depend on data engineers to build these data pipelines.

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Data Entropy?—?More Data, More Problems?

Towards Data Science

Data engineers spend countless hours troubleshooting broken pipelines. Data plays a central role in modern organisations; the centricity here is not just a figure of speech, as data teams often sit between traditional IT and different business functions. Every “minor” change upstream results in mayhem. trillion to the U.S.