Top data engineering writer on Medium & Senior Data Engineer in media; I use my skills as a former journalist to demystify data science/programming concepts so beginners to professionals can target, land and excel in data-driven roles.
What's A Data Engineering "Day Turn?"
The Latest From Pipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceHi past, present or future data professional! Have you gotten a bit too comfortable with your 2-week sprint grind? In a professional environment, data engineers and other software developers enjoy breathing room to freely code, test and deploy products. But what about those times where your data engineering task is scoped out, assigned and expected to be completed on the same day? In the latest from Pipeline you’ll learn what a data engineering “day turn” is and discover strategies for efficiently working, even under intense deadline pressure. Forget Your Sprint — When Data Engineering Tasks Must Be Completed In The Same Day Thanks for ingesting, -Zach |
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Top data engineering writer on Medium & Senior Data Engineer in media; I use my skills as a former journalist to demystify data science/programming concepts so beginners to professionals can target, land and excel in data-driven roles.
Extract. Transform. Read. A newsletter from Pipeline. Hi past, present or future data professional! This holiday season will be a little less bright thanks to my lack of personal GitHub commits. Like you, I began 2024 full of ideas and motivation that, let’s be honest, was depleted by the end of Q1 when I was cranking out enough code at work that would please even notorious code volume stickler Elon Musk. Despite my lacking output, I managed to hunker down to create useful “bespoke” (a.k.a....
Extract. Transform. Read. A newsletter from Pipeline. Hi past, present or future data professional! When I worked at Disney there was one line (aside from “Have a Magical Day”) that was borderline beaten into us: “We are all custodial employees.” The line meant, of course, to keep areas under your purview neat and presentable (“show ready” in Disney-speak). Using the same logic, I’d like to emphasize that while the various data roles (data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, etc.) have...
Extract. Transform. Read. A Newsletter From Pipeline Hi past, present or future data professional! Since today marks Thanksgiving in the US, I hope this reaches you before your eyes glaze over from the tryptophan-induced turkey coma we all inevitably slip into. While today is a day of gratitude, from a data engineering perspective, I’d like to focus, instead, on the under-the-radar tasks that can make a difference at this time of year—even if they don’t gain you any recognition at work. The...