[HN Gopher] Become a better data engineer on a shoestring (free ...
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Become a better data engineer on a shoestring (free resources)
 
Author : aratob
Score  : 52 points
Date   : 2022-02-24 17:56 UTC (5 hours ago)
 
web link (www.dataengineering.academy)
w3m dump (www.dataengineering.academy)
 
| lixtra wrote:
| I'm not aware of any decent data engineer for whom money is the
| bottleneck. It's always time and mental capacity.
 
| blowski wrote:
| Can anyone vouch for the quality on this site? I've been looking
| for data engineering resources for my team, but don't want to
| share anything shoddy.
 
  | mywittyname wrote:
  | Looking over the resources, it doesn't seem worthwhile.
  | 
  | The difficult part is not learning how to code, or work with
  | SQL. The hard part is learning the platform and tooling you
  | need to operate at scale. The ecosystem is full of tools that
  | are great for certain workloads, but terrible for others.
  | 
  | Your best bet is to start by getting an overview of the tools
  | available for your team. If you're using AWS, GCP, or Azure,
  | they each have data engineer-oriented certifications. So take a
  | look at what tools those certification courses cover and start
  | there.
  | 
  | If you are not in a cloud environment, take a look at Apache
  | Airflow, Beam, Storm, or Hadoop. Most of the tooling provided
  | by the big cloud providers is either a rip off of one these
  | products, or is merely a hosted version (i.e, GCP Cloud
  | Composer is managed Airflow).
 
  | gigatexal wrote:
  | My title says Senior Data Engineer* and from what I can tell it
  | looks like a collection of interesting things but nothing so
  | revolutionary. You're better off identifying what aspects your
  | team is weak in and seeking out experts or training in that
  | specifically.
  | 
  | * titles are kinda shit analogs for skill
 
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