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What Data Engineers Really Do?

Analytics Vidhya

In a data-driven world, behind-the-scenes heroes like data engineers play a crucial role in ensuring smooth data flow. A data engineer investigates the issue, identifies a glitch in the e-commerce platform’s data funnel, and swiftly implements seamless data pipelines.

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Top 20 Data Engineering Project Ideas [With Source Code]

Analytics Vidhya

Data engineering plays a pivotal role in the vast data ecosystem by collecting, transforming, and delivering data essential for analytics, reporting, and machine learning. Aspiring data engineers often seek real-world projects to gain hands-on experience and showcase their expertise.

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Why did Golang lose to Rust for Data Engineering?

Confessions of a Data Guy

The funny thing is, at the time, and today, it […] The post Why did Golang lose to Rust for Data Engineering? appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy. When I first wrote a little Golang (~2+ years ago) I was just trying to see what the hype was all about.

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Docker Fundamentals for Data Engineers

Start Data Engineering

Most data projects use Docker to set up the data infra locally (and often in production). Introduction 2. Docker concepts 2.1. Define the OS and its configurations with an image 2.2. Use the image to run containers 2.2.1. Communicate between containers and local OS 2.2.2. Start containers with docker CLI or compose 3. Conclusion 1.

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10 Great Videos To Help You Learn Data Engineering

Seattle Data Guy

It’s unavoidable that as businesses demand that their data teams implement AI, they will also realize that data engineers are a crucial piece of the data pipeline.

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How to learn data engineering

Christophe Blefari

Learn data engineering, all the references ( credits ) This is a special edition of the Data News. But right now I'm in holidays finishing a hiking week in Corsica 🥾 So I wrote this special edition about: how to learn data engineering in 2024. Who are the data engineers?

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How To Hire Junior Data Engineers

Seattle Data Guy

With all the recent data events I have put together I inevitably run into new data engineers who are either finishing up college or looking to transition into a data engineer or data scientist position. In fact I have talked to several newly graduated engineers who are struggling to find work.