The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In this issue, we cover: The SDET role Retiring of the SDET role The SDET role The SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) role was one that Microsoft pioneered across the tech industry. We also had a split of software engineers and QA engineers. The first thing we did was make QA a part of engineering.

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Software Engineer Software Engineering Coding Engineering 283

Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Data Engineering is typically a software engineering role that focuses deeply on data – namely, data workflows, data pipelines, and the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. According to reports by DICE Insights, the job of a Data Engineer is considered the top job in the technology industry in the third quarter of 2020.

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Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Pipeline-centric 98

Cloudera

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I was part of this migration project, and then after undergrad, I went on to be a software engineer for a utility company, who was using DB2 on the mainframe and migrating to Oracle on Unix. Say, circa 2004 when I started at Oracle. And one of the systems that I worked on benchmarking in 2004 was 70 terabytes.

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Data Warehouse Relational Database Hadoop BI 41