Let's explore the different data engineers' options when looking for work together. — The sheer amount of data generated in today's world is staggering. Every click, transaction, and choice contributes to the massive data environment, whether in global banking, social media, healthcare, or retail. Businesses can use data to influence strategy, improve operations, and gain a competitive edge due to its ubiquity. However…

Trying to understand others and myself. Observations of my judgements and how I want to be a better human. — It can be hard to talk to people with different amounts of knowledge and intelligence. Yes, that doesn’t sound nice, Og! But we've all had this thought at some point. It can be frustrating when other people don’t seem as interested in or motivated to learn about the world as…

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. …

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…