Since I last posted, I have changed jobs and done a considerable amount of reading, especially on the Data Engineering Subreddit. Both, driving me to think about the existential question of…”What is a Data Engineer.” As I pondered, I came to frame my thoughts as such. Is a Data Engineer: A Software Engineer who Focuses

Azure Data Factory is by far my favorite ETL tool I have ever used, and I love that since is on the cloud the team is constantly iterating. However, when you live in any app all the time there are things you really wish for, here are some of mine. (This may be / can

Jump to Development Steps Every user wants data faster, while the volume and velocity of data only increases. How can one make sure this data is ingested, transformed, and displayed so users can quickly act based on the newest info. In a PowerBI environment that can be a bit cumbersome. In 2019, had a client

In 2009, I had moved my whole family to take a job in Florida working in political advertising. In the odd years politics is a bit quieter and so I had a lot of free time and living in Jacksonville had discovered there was an active tech community, something Kentucky definitely did not have when