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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

One way to know the difference between data scientists and data engineers is to see what happens when they write their own distributed systems. A software engineer with a specialization in writing distributed systems will create one that performs well and is distributed ( but seriously don’t write your own ). Bug tracking.

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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer. Marcus: I do.