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AnnouncementsPosted onFebruary 21, 2021February 22, 2021

My New Book: Data Pipelines Pocket Reference

Over the past 9 months, I’ve been working on a book to be published by O’Reilly Media. This past week, Data Pipelines Pocket Reference was…

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Data EngineeringPosted onFebruary 15, 2021February 15, 2021

Why You Should Consider Data Contracts for Data Ingestions

In an ideal world, data engineers are presented with a source of ingesting data (the Extract and Load steps in ELT) from source systems that’s…

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Data AnalysisPosted onJanuary 18, 2021January 18, 2021

Data Warehouses are the Past, Present, and Future

The death of the data warehouse, long prophesied, seems to always been on the horizon yet never realized. Much like cold fusion power and fully…

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Data EngineeringPosted onDecember 21, 2020December 21, 2020

The Year in Data and Analytics – 2020

Deep breath. In and out. I’ve been doing a lot of that in 2020, and I know I’m not alone. I hesitated to write a…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 28, 2020November 28, 2020

What is Apache Airflow? An Overview

Workflow management platforms are what data engineers use to schedule and coordinate the steps in a data pipeline – an activity sometimes referred to as…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 15, 2020November 15, 2020

Loading Data from S3 to into Snowflake

Loading data that’s been stored in an S3 bucket into a Snowflake data warehouse is an incredibly common task for a data engineer. In an…

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Data EngineeringPosted onFebruary 17, 2020

Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive

Though the title of this post may sound obvious to some, it’s not how most organizations function. Many excellent software engineers are led to believe…

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Data EngineeringPosted onJanuary 15, 2020January 17, 2020

The Misunderstood Data Engineer

Data Engineers are a hot commodity in 2020, but it’s surprising how misunderstood they are. Are they a software engineer with a hyped up job…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 14, 2019November 15, 2019

Modular ELT

A while back, I wrote a post on why ELT is preferable to ETL with Amazon Redshift and other modern data warehouses such as Snowflake…

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Data AnalysisPosted onNovember 5, 2019December 9, 2019

Designing Data Teams

In the last few years, there’s been a noticeable shift at cutting edge organizations in how data teams are structured. No longer is data engineering…

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