Data Engineer Things Newsletter #2
Curated resources for the Data Engineer Things community.
Hello everyone!
Happy Summer! Don’t forget to take a break and enjoy the sunshine! ☀️ 🏖 🍨
The Data Engineer Things (DET) community is now a family of almost 2000 members! Thank you for being part of it!
P.S. Don’t forget to join our Slack group if you haven’t!
🌟 Community Highlights
The DET Mentorship Program is officially ON! 🎊
We have 19 DET Mentors generously offering their time and expertise, including:
Cristian Orellana: Senior Staff DE TLM at Meta
Sreyashi Das: Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Sharath Chandra: Data Engineering Manager at Confluent
Amit Sharma: Staff Data / ML Engineer at RetailMeNot
Gaurav Thalpati: Cloud Data Architect
Phil Ballentine: Senior Director of Data Engineering at Atropos Health
👉🏼 Looking for a mentor? To get started, follow the DET Mentorship Program Guide.
👉🏼 Want to become a DET mentor? Fill out the DET Mentor Application.
(A big thank you to Arunava and Cristian for making this happen!)
📚 Articles of the Month
Featured blog posts from DET authors:
Why You Shouldn’t Invest In Vector Databases? by Yingjun Wu
SOLID Principles for Spark Applications by Stephen David-Williams
Understanding Database Normalization: From Basics to ER Diagrams by Anto Semeraro
The Evolution of Big Data: From SQL Databases to Interactive Analytics by Nicholas Piesco
5 Ways to Boost Your Productivity as a Data Engineer by Luuk Mes
Breaking into Data Engineering as a Self-Taught Developer by Elias Benaddou Idrissi
(Want to write for DET? Read our submission guidelines here.)
Don’t forget to also check out:
Introduction to Presto/Trino for Data Engineers by SeattleDataGuy
What Most People Don't Get About Machine Learning Engineering by Sarah Floris
How I got a data engineering job at Facebook (coming from a small town and tier 3 university) by Zach Wilson
Gentle Introduction to the Stream Computing Realm by Nikhil Srivastava
🎸 Events & Activities
[June 27 (Tomorrow!)] [In-person + Online] Magic Meetup in San Francisco: DET is partnering with Mage to host in-person data engineering meetups in the Bay Area! Our speakers include Joe Reis, the co-author of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering,” and Julian Jaffe and Ramayan Tiwari from Netflix. Sign up HERE.
[Past Event] Demystifying Data Lake & Apache Iceberg: Dipankar Mazumdar gives an introduction to data lake, a comparison of common table formats, and a deep dive into Apache Iceberg. Watch the recording HERE.
[TBD] [Online] A few online DET webinars coming soon in July/August:
Learn about Apache Hudi from the Hudi creator and PMC
What’s a perfect summer activity? Diving into Delta Lake!
Using LLMs for data discovery with the creator of Amundsen
Flink Forward Seattle 2023 (Nov 6 - 8) is calling for speakers! Submit a talk proposal HERE by July 12.
Current 2023 (previously Kafka Summit, and one of my favorite data conferences) is happening on Sep 26 - 27 in San Jose, CA. Check out the conference agenda and speaker lineup HERE!
Looking for DE buddies to read and learn together? DET Book Club 📖 is coming soon! Join the #det-book-club Slack channel to stay tuned for updates!
💼 Job Opportunities
Netflix is hiring for a Data Engineer L4 (requiring at least 2+ years of experience) for the Game Data Engineering team. Contact Xinran Waibel for more info.
Koantek is hiring an MLOps Engineer (requiring at least 2+ years of experience). Contact Sanket Mehta for more info.
ExpertRemote is hiring for various types of remote data roles (full-time or part-time consulting positions). Contact Alex Chepovoi for more info.
🐶 DE + PET of the Week
Hey there! I'm Luuk, a total data nerd who's crazy about working in the health-tech industry. I love spilling the beans on all things DE on LinkedIn and Medium!
When I'm not plumbing the pipelines, I'm a proud dad to two amazing girls and a full-time cat lover. We've got three female cats at home, but it's our Maine Coon kitten Rosie who really steals the show. She's only eight months old, already bigger than the older cats, and absolutely loves a good cuddle or lap nap!
(💖 Join the #de-and-pet channel and share cute pictures of your pets with us!)
Want to recommend awesome data engineering content to be featured in the next newsletter? Submit recommendations here.
Have a great week and see you next time!
Cheers,
Xinran Waibel
Oh I love this content! So glad you made it Xinran. Really admire what you do.