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[Pipeline] Provision A Python VM In 5 Minutes
The Latest From Pipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceHi past, present or future data professional! One of the worst habits you can adapt in data engineering is to accept a tool or technology as a black box you’ll simply never understand. For me, for the longest time, this was virtual machines. I would commit and troubleshoot code that would run within a VM but never quite knew how to interact with it. Recently, I provisioned a Google Cloud Compute Engine instance for a junior teammate and learned how to simply and logically create a virtual environment that can boost compute power and accurately mimic production. The best part is, I’ve distilled this into a process that shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes. Read the latest here. And if you want to learn why automation isn’t always the end goal of software engineering, read last week’s article. Thanks for ingesting, -Zach |
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Reaching 20k+ readers on Medium and over 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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