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Reaction to Data Engineering Survey for 2024

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Why did Golang lose to Rust for Data Engineering?

A few years ago I wasn’t sure, who was going to win, Golang seemed to be popular, and still is for that matter. When I first wrote a little Golang (~2+ years ago) I was just trying to see what the hype was all about. The funny thing is, at the time, and today, it […]

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If:Else Logic and Complexity – Hiding the Pea.

I was recently confronted with an interesting conundrum when writing a complex data pipeline. It was an interesting problem that arose from my quest to reduce complexity in part of the design, which found itself creeping into another part, re-enforcing the classic idea of whether you can really make the complexity pea go away, or […]

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Data Analytics Suck! Worst Job Ever!

Being Data Analytics is a meat grinder, it’s the worst job ever. Horrible it is. It will crush you.

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DuckDB Out Of Memory – Has it been fixed?

Back in March, I did a writeup and experiment called DuckDB vs Polars, Thunderdom, 16GB on 4GB machine challenge. The idea was to see if the two tools could process “larger than memory” datasets with lazy execution. Polars worked fine, DuckDB failed in spectacular fashion. I also noted how many people had opened issues in […]

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Transitioning to Senior Engineer

It’s probably what every single person wants to accomplish first after they’ve been writing code for a year professionally. How do I get to Senior Engineer? What skills do I need? “I am a good coder, give me the Senior Engineer title.” Sadly, most Junior and Mid-Level Engineers think that being a Senior Engineer is […]

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Databricks Doubles Cost. Reddit Explodes. I’m in Trouble!

I recently did a post on Linkedin and Reddit about Databricks removing Standard Tier and forcing folks into Unity Catalog. The post got big traction and blew up, more than I thought. Enough for the Databricks folk to hunt me down at work and tell me I’m naughty. I will be writing a more in-depth […]

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Writing Apache Spark with Rust! Spark Connect Introduced.

I never thought I would live to see the day, it’s crazy. I’m not sure who’s idea it was to make it possible to write Apache Spark with Rust, Golang, or Python … but they are all genius. As of Apache Spark 3.4 it is now possible to use Spark Connect … a thin API […]

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How to JOIN datasets in Polars … compared to Pandas.

It’s been a while since I wrote about Polars on this blog, I’ve been remiss. Some time ago I wrote a very simple comparison of switching from Pandas to Polars, I didn’t put much real effort into it, yet it was popular, so this is my attempt at trying to expand on that topic a […]

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Building Databricks Data Pipelines 101

Have you ever wondered at a high level what it’s like to build production-level data pipelines on Databricks? What does it look like, what tools do you use?

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