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7 Tips To Achieve A 99% Cloud Deployment Success Rate
Extract. Transform. Read.A newsletter from Pipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceHi past, present or future data professional! Few aspects of data engineering are as shame-inducing as saying, after a failed deployment, “But it ran in my environment!” In my first year as a data engineer I was that guy who made excuses like this and grew frustrated that I would complete a build and then struggle to push it over the finish line. Here’s what helped me:
I don’t track my deployment success rate (probably for the best given my initial failures), but I estimate that following the above advice has reduced my failure rate from 20% to between 1-5%. None of these bullets, however, is a substitute for hands-on experience. To step through your own deployment, enroll in my free 5-day Deploy Your First Cloud Function course. As always, please send me any questions: zach@pipelinetode.com. Thanks for ingesting, -Zach |
Extract. Transform. Read.
Reaching 20k+ readers on Medium and nearly 3k learners by email, I draw on my 4 years of experience as a Senior Data Engineer to demystify data science, cloud and programming concepts while sharing job hunt strategies so you can land and excel in data-driven roles. Subscribe for 500 words of actionable advice every Thursday.
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