Data Engineer Things Newsletter #3
Curated resources for the Data Engineer Things community.
Hello everyone!
Happy July! I recently discovered Last Dance on Netflix. I really enjoyed this documentary even though I don’t watch basketball at all! Have you seen it? ⛹🏽♀️🏀
The Data Engineer Things (DET) community is now a family of over 2500 members! Thank you for being part of it!
🌟 Community Highlights
The DET Book Club is starting in August! 📖
The first book we will read together is Fundamentals of Data Engineering, by Joe Reis and Matt Housley. No matter you are new to data engineering or an experienced data professional hoping to gain new perspectives, this book is a must-read.
We are also giving away FREE copies of the book to our community members!
👉🏼 Sign up for the book club here: join.det.life/bookclub.
🎁 Fill out THIS form to enter the book raffle!
(A big thank you to Ameenah Lawal for making this happen!)
📚 Articles of the Month
The 2023 Data Engineering Onboarding Report by Eduard Popa
Data First, AI Forward: A Recap of Data+AI Summit 2023 by Yingjun Wu
What I Learned from Surviving a Coaching Plan in Silicon Valley by Xinran Waibel
Data with Rust by Karim Jedda (& his cat Bubu)
How to Implement Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) by Robin Moffatt
The Origins of Apache Arrow & Its Fit in Today’s Data Landscape by Dipankar Mazumdar
How (and why) Kafka was created at LinkedIn (An interview with Jun Rao)
(Want to publish blogs with DET? Read our submission guidelines here.)
🎸 Events & Activities
[July 21] [Online] Harnessing LLMs for Better Data Discoverability: Mark Grover, Founder at Semma and Co-creator of Amundsen, will share his insights and learning from using GPT to build AI-powered data discovery features for data engineers and their end users. Sign up HERE.
[July 28] [Online] Demystifying Apache Hudi (with Hudi PMC!): Nadine Farah and Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran will give us a deep dive into Apache Hudi: including core technical components & concepts, real-world use cases, and a comparison with other data lake frameworks. Sign up HERE.
Current 2023 is happening on Sep 26 - 27 in San Jose, CA. Check out the conference agenda and speaker lineup HERE.
The next Big Data London is set for Sep 20 - 21 with FREE registration.
🐶 DE + PET of the Week
Hey y'all - I'm a formerly Seattle-based, then Toronto-based, and then NYC-based Data Engineer at Amazon currently living in Nashville. My focus at work is on building data lakes and modernizing infrastructure. I got degrees in English and French about a decade before the first stable release of Spark.
In this photo, providing a second pair of eyes for any CRs, is my six-year calico cat, Skittles - named after my favorite football player's preferred sideline snack. Fun fact about Skittles: she's lived in 3 different states and 2 different counties and has an actual "pet passport"!
(💖 Join the #de-and-pet channel and share cute pictures of your pets with us!)
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Have a great week and see you next time!
Cheers,