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The Path To Senior Engineer

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Want to know how to grow to the Senior Engineering position? Take a look. The post The Path To Senior Engineer appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Don’t Be So Smart

Confessions of a Data Guy

Most Software Engineers think of themselves as too smart. They think they are the best and brightest coder alive or that has ever lived. Doing so, they stunt themselves from becoming Senior Engineers and become hard to work with, the nightmare of the PR process. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the […] The post Don’t Be So Smart appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Data Modeling Is Easy

Confessions of a Data Guy

When you’ve been data modeling as long as I have, it gets to be the same old … same old. People make data modeling harder than it has to be. There is a lot of jargon that gets thrown around … third-normal-form, OLAP, OLTP … I give you the 3-4 basics that are at the […] The post Data Modeling Is Easy appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Is Devin Going To Take My Software Engineering Job?

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Unless you’ve been hiding a rock you’ve probably heard the hubbub over Devin the new AI Software Engineer that is going to take your job. While this is a genius piece of marketing … it’s a bunch of crud. Never fear, you are in no more danger of losing your job in Software than when […] The post Is Devin Going To Take My Software Engineering Job?

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Never Put Databricks Notebooks in Production

Confessions of a Data Guy

Recently an Architecture at Databricks recommended people use Notebooks for Production workloads. Very bad and horrible idea. Very expensive compute for most people (All Purpose Clusters) and it leads to horrible development practices. It set off a firestorm on Linkedin when I commented people SHOULD NOT follow this advice. Read here and here The post Never Put Databricks Notebooks in Production appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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DuckDB has MAJOR Problems! OOM Errors.

Confessions of a Data Guy

I recently did a challenge. The results were clear. DuckDB CANNOT handle larger-than-memory datasets. OOM Errors. See link below for more details. … DuckDB vs Polars – Thunderdome. 16GB on 4GB machine Challenge. The post DuckDB has MAJOR Problems! OOM Errors. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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The Best Piece of Software Engineering Advice

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You probably think this is another internet clickbait title uh? Just trying to get you to clickty clickty and sell you some Google Ads. Two problems. I don’t have Google Ads, and I know a small percentage of people will actually listen to this advice. Whatever. There is a reason some developers struggle to move […] The post The Best Piece of Software Engineering Advice appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.