The State of Data Engineering at Data Day Texas 2024

by Jesse Anderson | Jan 29, 2024 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Featured Talks | 0 comments

The premier of my latest talk covering The State of Data Engineering. I go through the history of the industry to see where we’re heading. This starts with data warehousing and goes into data science. I finish off by showing how data engineering can avoid the...
The Difference Between Learning and Doing

The Difference Between Learning and Doing

by Jesse Anderson | Nov 30, 2023 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

Lately, I’ve been learning how to trade options. Although there’s data and programming involved in options trading, it isn’t as technical as data engineering or software engineering. However, it reflects the current state of learning, whether that’s data engineering...

The Data Discovery Team

by Jesse Anderson | Nov 14, 2023 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

A Guest Post by Ole Olesen-Bagneux In this blog post I would like to describe a new data team, that I call ‘the data discovery team’. It’s a team that connects naturally into the constellation of the three data teams  Operations team Data engineering team Data...
Data Teams Survey 2023 Follow-Up

Data Teams Survey 2023 Follow-Up

by Jesse Anderson | May 9, 2023 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

The results and analysis from my 2023 Data Teams Survey left a few open questions. Let’s revisit these questions with some answers. Methodologies and Size of Company Figure 1 – Methodologies Broken Down By Size of Company Using Them We see a few commonalities...
Data Teams Survey 2023 Results

Data Teams Survey 2023 Results

by Jesse Anderson | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

Between January 24, 2023, and February 28, 2023, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams, and to update my previous survey from late 2020. Overall, we had 81 respondents. This survey was designed to get information about how management uses data...
Ten Years On – The Million Monkeys Project

Ten Years On – The Million Monkeys Project

by Jesse Anderson | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Million Monkeys | 1 comment

I want to tell you a story about how my life changed. It wasn’t a cult, new religion, or programming language. A million monkeys changed my life. Ten years ago, I randomly recreated every work of Shakespeare. It was quite a project on the technical, news, and...
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