The month in writing · 2021
May 2021
2 new essays — Craft & Communication, Data Engineering.
Showing 02 essays from May 2021
20 MAY 2021 · 5 min read
Hiring for a Data Team: What I Look For in a CV
I've read a lot of data CVs now, and I've stopped being impressed by the thing everyone leads with — the wall of technologies. Here's what I actually look for, and it's mostly not on the tools list.
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Craft & Communication
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06 MAY 2021 · 5 min read
Delta Lake, Explained for People Who Just Want Reliable Tables
A data lake gives you cheap, flexible storage and takes away the thing you didn't know you relied on: reliable tables. Delta Lake hands that back — transactions, versioning, and updates on top of plain files. Here's what it does, without the jargon.
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Data Engineering
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