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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Overall, it shows the approximate portions of the two groups who can and cannot create data pipelines. Yes, some data engineers can’t create a moderately complicated data pipeline. A common misconception from data scientists—and management—is that data engineering is just writing some Spark code to process a file.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. Integrate all needed technical skills into each team, such as testing and operations. How to Be Agile.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

I couldn’t afford college and I ended up getting a job at a software company in Atlanta doing tech support, which then turned into a quality assurance job where I learned to write some scripts to test what I was testing. Engineers having seen that, then it turned into an Engineering 1 job, helping fix bugs and work on their software.