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When I was young and full of myself, writing Perl and PHP, while your ma was still reading you a bedtime story and giving you a stuffy to fall asleep with, I had to program uphill, both ways, in the rain and snow. Not like you milk toast Data Engineers clickty clicking around Databricks and […] After 10 years of Data Engineering work, I think it’s time to hang up the proverbial hat and ride off into the sunset, never to be seen again. I wish. Everything has changed in 10 years, yet nothing has changed in 10 years, how is that even possible? Sometimes I wonder if I’ve learned anything […] One of the things I love about Python is its flexibility and huge community, a community that puts out a never-ending stream of useful packages for the average Software Engineer. In a show of solidarity to the open-source community, I thought I would publish a PYPI package that will probably be used by 5 people […] The battle for the Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Lake House, or whatever you want to call i
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