Data Engineer Things Newsletter #19
Bay Area meetup at eBay HQ, OpenXData conference, and speaking opportunities.
Hello everyone,
How have you been? I had the most amazing April! I visited my family in China and took a week-long trip to Chengdu, Sichuan, a city famous for numbing peppers and pandas. It was the most amazing culinary adventure I’ve ever had. Then I flew to Los Gatos to host the 2nd Data Engineering Open Forum, and I met many of you in person at the event. I’m hoping to bring the open forum to more cities and exciting things are in the works. Stay tuned!
🗓 Bay Area Meetup at eBay HQ on May 28
Join the next DET Bay Area Meetup for an evening of learning and networking!
When: 6 pm - 8 pm on Wednesday, May 28
Where: eBay's Global Headquarters, 2025 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
Talk #1: Graph Data Engineering for Complex Low-Latency Analytics & AI at Scale, by Sahana Chattopadhyay Debnath (Senior Data Engineer at eBay)
Talk #2: Inside the next-gen Presto C++ engine, by Aditi Pandit (Principal Engineer at IBM)
👉🏼 RSVP
🎬 The OpenXData Conference on May 21
The OpenXData conference on Wednesday, May 21, is a free virtual event on open data architectures, covering topics like data lakehouses, stream processing, query engines, and data for AI/ML. At the event, you will find talks by great speakers from Netflix, dbt Labs, Databricks, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Peloton, and many more:
Powering Amazon Unit Economics at Scale Using Apache Hudi, by Jason Liu (Senior Software Engineer at Amazon)
A Flexible, Efficient Lakehouse Architecture for Streaming Ingestion, by Rajwardhan Singh (Engineering Manager at Zoom)
Data Mesh and Governance at Twilio, by Aakash Pradeep (Principal Software Engineer at Twilio)
👉🏼 Check out the full agenda and sign up HERE.
(This message is sponsored by the MLOps Community.)
🗣️ Speaking at Future Community Events
Within the community, we want to foster a safe environment for both learning and sharing, and we encourage our members (like you) to share their knowledge with everyone. It could be any data engineering topics you are passionate about: how you solved a real-world problem with data engineering, techniques of leveraging open-source frameworks, how to build a data team, communication skills, etc.
👉🏼 Want to speak at one of our in-person meetups or online webinars? Submit your talk proposals HERE.
📚 Articles of the Week
Why Most Data Engineering Resumes Get Rejected in 10 Seconds (And How to Fix Yours) by Coders Stop. (This article resonated with me. It has detailed examples of dos and don’ts and practical tips. If you are working on your resume, do check it out.)
Airflow 3 and Airflow AI SDK in Action — Analyzing League of Legends by Volker Janz
Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline by Netflix Technology Blog
Turn workplace conflict into collaboration by David Dye and Karin Hurt. (In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve built a habit of recommending at least one article about soft skills in each newsletter. This time, it’s about conflict resolution.)
Have a great week and see you next time!
Cheers,
Xinran Waibel
Head of the Data Engineer Things community
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