These 8 Articles Changed How I See Data Engineering
Reading is a superpower, knowledge a person has accumulated over years you get to ingest in minutes.
But it also comes with dangers, the danger of ingesting crap, to spend hours filtering through content that isn’t good at all.
And yet, from time to time, you stumble over unique articles. My feeling then usually is, “Why didn’t I know this before? Why has no one told me about this article?”
There are only a few articles that changed my perspective on data engineering as a discipline, and I do remember all of them pretty well. All of them contain a small, unique lesson that’s unique, thought-provoking, and true, at least to me.
Here are the 8 that stand out, that got me just that feeling, the 8 I think you need to read. So let me tell you why:
The Rise of the Data Engineer — Maxime Beauchemin
You might know this article; it’s been all over the internet for quite some time. It is already six years old, and it already has some patina.
