Sat.Aug 26, 2017 - Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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InnerSource Do’s and Don’ts out of Dortmund

Zalando Engineering

At Zalando, we have many teams working on their respective systems and domains where they operate like small startups. They take responsibility for these systems and have a feeling of ownership, constantly engaging with other teams to solve bigger challenges and enable new features. Sometimes during these alignments and feature requests, priorities collide and we can’t support others.

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The Downfall of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

This post follows up on The Rise of the Data Engineer , a recent post that was an attempt at defining data engineering and described how this new role relates to historical and modern roles in the data space. In this post, I want to expose the challenges and risks that cripple data engineers and enumerates the forces that work against this discipline as it goes through its adolescence.