Philosophical thoughts while drinking coffee by the mountains. — Good morning everyone! The last two articles were serious and academic. Still, I want to create content that you can reference when you need it without all of my humour and GIFs. But that doesn’t mean I won’t do both. I’ve been close to the mountains this weekend and read…

Key Data Governance and Data Security considerations for a Data Engineer. — Data governance and security are essential considerations in data engineering. Data governance and security are important parts of the data engineering process to ensure that data is correct, private, and available. In this article, we’ll talk about the role of data engineers in data governance and security, as well as…

A short rant on how the underlying data and insights both provide differ. — Metrics for monitoring and alerting, as well as metrics for business intelligence, help track and understand a variety of operational and strategic indicators. There are parallels to be drawn between the two, but ultimately their uses and goals are pretty distinct. This article will compare and contrast metrics used for…

Don’t want to pay to play? BYON — Bring Your Own Notebook! Or how I run Spark, Hadoop, Hive, and Jupyter locally. — 👋 ☕️ 🌅 Good morning everyone! How is everyone doing this fine Saturday Morning? Ready for a quick chat? Hmm? Yes? Good! First, I hope you are doing fine after two days of craziness. Each Thanksgiving is the same for me. Food Comma -> Burn calories running around buying Christmas…

My last post was on April 22nd, 2022. That’s 166 days since I sat down and wrote something for this blog. I honestly didn’t have anything to write about; the same goes for the podcast. It was a good start, and I think I did well and tried something new…

Why does work sometimes pile up, and we don’t get to do the things we enjoy. — Hello, everyone! I haven’t posted in a while, and the reason was work! I would love to say that I was off on some beach drinking margaritas with my señorita, but that isn’t the case. …

Data Engineer Blog 0x001B — Saturday Morning Coffee Thoughts: How the purpose of the work determines what your focus should be. — I’ve been thinking about how I make decisions when we’re looking at requirements. For example, how does someone know what to focus on and what work should be done to solve an issue? Client Focus How does the issue impact the client? Looking at the problem and how it affects a client…

Data Engineer Blog 0x001A — Saturday Morning Coffee Thoughts: Knowing yourself and your limits are essential to succeed in life and work. — ** DISCLAIMER ** I am not a psychologist nor mental health professional. This post provides my story and what I have learned to help myself.. If you have the means, I recommend seeking professional help first. Introduction Hello everyone! I hope you all had a productive week. What’s that, you’re tired…

Data Engineer Blog 0x0019 — Saturday Morning Coffee Thoughts — Introduction Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful work week, and I wish you a restful weekend. This week a colleague and I were talking about the role of QA. We’re trying to figure out internal processes and how we want to tackle gaps that we see in our current…