Data pipelines as dependable as software
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Hey, hope you’ve had a great week!
Data Engineering
2025
2024
Talking to software engineers
Yesterday I talked to software engineers about data quality.
Moving to interfaces requires a culture change
Responding to yesterdays post on LinkedIn, Anna Bergevin wrote:
Good software engineers change schemas all the time
I came across this on LinkedIn (as a screenshot from Bluesky) this morning.
Assumptions built on assumptions
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Your customers assume the data application they are paying for is always correct and always up to date.
A business case that improves data quality
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Many data engineering teams spend a lot of their time struggling to deal with upstream data.
Data teams start with accessibility
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A new data team, perhaps being created in a business that is evolving from a startup to a scaleup, often focus on accessibility.
When you remove data engineering as a bottleneck
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When you remove data engineering as a bottleneck:
Writing code is the easy part
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Writing code.
The goal has always been accessible data
The goal of every data architecture has always been to provide accessible data to the organisation.
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