Monthly job board for database professionals, featuring remote and onsite data engineering, DBA, and analytics roles from March 2026.
A monthly roundup of tech links focusing on data engineering, Kafka, AI, and software development, including personal articles and industry news.
A guide to choosing between batch and streaming data processing models based on actual freshness requirements and cost.
Explains the importance of automated testing for data pipelines, covering schema validation, data quality checks, and regression testing.
Argues that data quality must be enforced at the pipeline's ingestion point, not patched in dashboards, to ensure consistent, reliable data.
Explains how to safely evolve data schemas using API-like discipline to prevent breaking downstream systems like dashboards and ML pipelines.
Explains idempotent data pipelines, patterns like partition overwrite and MERGE, and how to prevent duplicate data during retries.
A practical, tool-agnostic checklist of essential best practices for designing, building, and maintaining reliable data engineering pipelines.
Seven critical mistakes that can derail semantic layer projects in data engineering, with practical advice on how to avoid them.
Seven common data modeling mistakes that cause reporting errors and slow analytics, with practical solutions to avoid them.
Explains the importance of pipeline observability for data health, covering metrics, logs, and lineage to detect issues beyond simple execution monitoring.
A guide to designing reliable, fault-tolerant data pipelines with architectural principles like idempotency, observability, and DAG-based workflows.
A guide to the core principles and systems thinking required for data engineering, beyond just learning specific tools.
Explores the limitations of traditional pull queries in data systems and advocates for using materialized views and data duplication to improve performance.
A comprehensive guide to learning Apache Iceberg, data lakehouse architecture, and Agentic AI with curated tutorials, tools, and resources.
A technical guide on using Apache Iceberg with Apache Spark and Polaris for building and managing a data lakehouse, covering setup, operations, and optimization.
Overview of key proposals in Apache Iceberg v4, focusing on performance, metadata efficiency, and portability for modern data workloads.
A monthly roundup of 78 curated links on data engineering, architecture, AI, and tech trends, with top picks highlighted.
A monthly roundup of curated links and articles focused on data engineering, Apache Kafka, and data platform technologies.
A guide to scheduling compaction and snapshot expiration in Apache Iceberg tables based on workload patterns and infrastructure constraints.
