🚀 Data Engineering And Strategy Learning Tracks

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Back To The Basics

• Data Sharing in the Real World: Why SFTP Remains Essential for Companies

• From Basics to Challenges: A Data Engineer's Journey with APIs

• 🔒 Behind the Scenes of SQL: Understanding SQL Query Execution

• Embrace Being A Beginner: The Importance of Building a Strong Technical Foundation

Growing As A Data Engineer

• 🔒 Becoming a Data Engineering Force Multiplier

• 🔒 Becoming A Better Data Engineer - Tips On Translating Business Requirements

• 🔒 What Does It Take To Get Promoted As An Engineer?

• 🔒 Getting Unstuck In Your Data Career .

• The Never Ending Epidemic of Resume Driven Development

• How To Fast Track Your Career As An Engineer

Technology, Tools, Best Practices And Definitions

• 🔒 Mistakes I Have Seen When Data Teams Deploy Airflow

• 🔒 Should You Use Apache Airflow?

• 🔒 Introduction to Presto/Trino for Data Engineers

• 🔒 Operational Data Stores Vs Data Lakehouses And All The Other Data Management Methods

• 🔒 OLTP vs OLAP - Transactions Vs Analytics

• 🔒 Normalization Vs Denormalization - Taking A Step Back

• 🔒 How And Why We Need To Implement Data Quality Now!

• Cataloging Data Catalogs

• What Is Change Data Capture

• Why is Polars All The Rage?

• Behind the Rust Hype: What Every Data Engineer Needs to Know

• Data Engineering Vs Machine Learning Pipelines

Private Webinars

Along with all the content on the Seattle Data Guy Newsletter, there are private Youtube Webinars that occur once every month or so that are only available to paying subscribers.

• How Do You Pick The Right Data Solutions - Setting Up A Reliable Analytics Stack(Thursday March 28th)

• Walking Through Data Infrastructure Migrations - With Real-Life Examples

Managing Data Teams - (Videos Included)

Technology is only one pillar of having a successful data team. You also need solid processes and people to ensure that you can use your data successfully. So I put together several articles and interviewed several directors and managers in the data world to understand how to better manage data teams.

• 🔒 Centralized vs Decentralized vs Federated Data Teams

• 🔒 Onboarding For Data Teams 

• 🔒 Elevating Your Data Team: From Service Providers to Strategic Partners 

• 🔒 Tips For Hiring Junior Data Engineers 

• Optimizing Your Data Infrastructure Costs: How To Approach It And Common Issues

• Different Types Of "Data Engineering" Teams 

• Setting Standards For Your Data Team

• 🎥 How Data Analytics Teams Can Deliver What The Business Needs 

• 🎥 The Product Development Life-Cycle For Dashboards - With Abby Kai Liu 

• 🎥 How To Manage Data Teams Successfully - Asking A Director Of Data Architecture And Governance - 

Data Modeling

• 🔒 Data Warehousing Essentials: A Precursor

• The Challenges You Will Face When Data Modeling

• What Is Query Driven Data Modeling

• 🔒 Normalization Vs Denormalization - Taking A Step Back

• 🎥  Data Modeling - Walking Through How To Data Model As A Data Engineer - Dimensional Modeling 101

The Data Industry Past Present and Future

• 🔒 A Decade In Data Engineering - What Has Changed?

• 🔒 The Kid Gloves Are Coming Off In The Data World

• 🔒 This Time It's Different - ChatGPT

• 🔒 Let's Move Fast And Get Rid Of Data Engineers

• What I Don't Want To See In The Data World In 5 Years

• How Far Can We Separate Storage And Compute

• The State Of Data Engineering - Part 1

Other

• 🔒 Onboarding For Data Teams

• 🔒 Navigating Your First 90 Days in a Data Job: A Comprehensive Guide

• Realities of Being A Data Engineer - Migrations

• What Is Shadow IT?