Data Engineer Things Newsletter #11
Upcoming Bay Area meetup, book club on data modeling, and more.
Hello there,
Any Dune fans here? I saw Dune: Part 2 last weekend and it was such a cinematographically beautiful movie. Highly recommended. (It’s funny that Part 1 was taken down from Netflix right before Part 2 came out, but you can find it on Max.)
🌟 DET Bay Area Meetup on March 27th
The next in-person DET Meetup in the Bay Area is coming soon:
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm on Wed, March 27th
Location: San Francisco (the exact venue TBD)
What to expect: Enjoy two great data engineering talks, Q&A time with the speakers, and networking with other attendees. Food and drink will be provided.
Talks and Speakers:
Mantis: Stream Processing for Operational Data by Sundaram Ananthanarayanan and Harshit Mittal (Senior Software Engineers @ Netflix)
Scaling Embedding Computations for RAG Apps with Ray by Cheng Su (Ray Data Lead Engineer @ Anyscale)
👉🏼 CTA: Sign up for the meetup HERE before spots run out (limited to 100).
(Thank you to Datastrato for sponsoring the event.)
🌟 DET Book Club + Data Modeling = ?
Our book club is back and this time we will be reading “The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling” by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross!
In our book club meetings, we will not only be discussing dimensional modeling but also leveraging this opportunity to delve into data modeling in its entirety. We will explore different forms of data modeling, past and current trends, and hot topics in data modeling space.
The book club will meet every two weeks and the first meeting is 9 - 10 am (PT) on Saturday, March 9th discussing Chapters 1 & 2.
👉🏼 CTA: (1) Join the book club Google group and (2) sign up for the first meeting.
📚 Articles of the Week
Proven in Production: A Cost-Effective Modern Data Architecture for Small and Medium Enterprises by Dustin Liu
Hot Take: Your Data Engineering Career Should Start with a Spreadsheet by Chad Isenberg
Effective Data Governance Can Only Exist Within Data Orchestration by Hugo Lu
Leveraging Spark 3 and NVIDIA’s GPUs to Reduce Cloud Cost by up to 70% for Big Data Pipelines by The PayPal Technology Blog
The secret to getting to the Staff+ level? Leverage. by Camille Fournier (I also enjoyed her book “The Manager’s Path”)
(Want to publish blogs with DET? Read our submission guidelines here.)
Have a great week and see you next time! 🦆
Cheers,
Xinran Waibel (LinkedIn)