I try to stick a few Azure Data Factory design paradigms. One of them is to create re-usable artifacts. By creating these elements, you can make your ADF pipelines dynamic and have runtime values. Over the last two years, ADF has added a lot more parametrization options, but not everywhere you would want to use

I heard an excellent talk from Sandro Mancuso recently at the Nashville dotNET user group. It was titled “Outside In Design,” but his background and his writings are around software craftsmanship, a term I don’t think I had encountered. I would never consider myself a software engineer, and a don’t know if I am a

My wife often says “what’s the cloud, why does everything have to go to the cloud” (which is kinda funny considering what I do). But for a lot of folks, the cloud is still an abstract concept and unless you have a job where you are forced into the cloud, you may be unsure where

There’s this Luke Combs song “Doin’ This” and I was thinking of it as I started to write, because this post kinda came about similarly. In it, Luke is talking about what he’d say if he were asked what he’d be doing, if he wasn’t “Doin’ This”? After I started as Slalom, I was talking

The three big cloud providers (GCP, AWS, and Azure) have basically analogous offerings of almost every service. So this week, I tried to testing out two of them to move my WordPress blog off GoDaddy. I have taken several certifications over last year since I started at Slalom, the most recent being the AWS Cloud

Last weekend, July 23, headed to the northeast for my first time ever to present for SQL Saturday NJ. It was my first time at an in person event since March, 2020. It was great to see data community and people (even with COVID still out and about). Last weekend, July 23, headed to the

I recently finished a World War II book (Beneath the Scarlet Sky), and while it was well written…I needed something optimistic to read after that. I randomly found Girl Code in my library app (free audio book is such a nice community thing, hope we don’t lose libraries) and seemed like it was perfect to

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the data analytics cohort at Nashville Software School. Technical bootcamps are awesome, and we need more people upskilling or changing careers. The roundtable was on Job Hunting and Finding a Mentor. I certainly don’t think I am an expert, but by

I think….I can maybe work in Python. And I do see the value of it to a Data Engineer. My last posts were somewhat (very?) self serving as I went through trying to learn more software engineering practices and specifically Python for my job with a web app startup. So, I wanted to circle back

This built off my previous post on what is a data engineer . Apparently, I am being reflective. Of the many of the posts I see, seem to stress the core idea of if you don’t know Python are you even a data engineer? For many people in the data space, they start their career