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Streaming Postgres data to Databricks Delta Lake in Unity Catalog

Over the many years I’ve been pounding my keyboard … Perl, PHP, Python, C#, Rust … whatever … I, like most programmers, built up a certain disdain for what is called Low Code / No Code solutions. In my rush to worship at the feet of the code we create, I failed, in the beginning, […]

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Introduction to Polars in 2 Minutes

Polars is the hot new Rust based Python Dataframe tool that is taking over the world and destryoing Pandas even as we speak. You want the quick and dirty introduction to Polars? Look no farther.

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Apache Spark’s Most Annoying Use Case

I still remember the good ole days when Apache Spark was fresh and hot, hardly anyone was using it, except a few poor AWS Glue and EMR users … Lord have mercy on their ragged souls. It’s funny how that GOAT of a tool went from being used by a few companies for extremely large […]

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What is a “Good” Data or Software Engineer?

Recently, for some unknown reason, I was pursuing the new Stackoverflow … called Reddit, for Data Engineering … and I ran across an interesting question … more or less it was related to “what makes a good Software Engineer … in a Data Engineering context.”

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How to Solve Data Engineering Problems

One thing I find myself doing these days (I am unsure how I feel about this), is teaching others to solve problems … Data Engineering problems to be specific. It’s not a hard stretch for most to imagine that what a person does at Senior+ software-type levels is just write good code all day. I […]

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CI/CD for Data Engineers.

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PyArrow vs Polars (vs DuckDB) for Data Pipelines.

I’ve had something rattling around in the old noggin for a while; it’s just another strange idea that I can’t quite shake out. We all keep hearing about Arrow this and Arrow that … seems every new tool built today for Data Engineering seems to be at least partly based on Arrow’s in-memory format. So, […]

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The Abstractions Are Making You Dumb (rise of the Shallow Expert)

When I was young and full of myself, writing Perl and PHP, while your ma was still reading you a bedtime story and giving you a stuffy to fall asleep with, I had to program uphill, both ways, in the rain and snow. Not like you milk toast Data Engineers clickty clicking around Databricks and […]

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