Tag: Software Engineering

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

Ed
March 17, 2023

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

Ed
February 14, 2022

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

Ed
September 25, 2021

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

Ed
September 19, 2021