The End of ETL? How Compute-on-Query Is Changing Data Engineering Fundamentals
Alex For decades, the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) paradigm has dominated data engineering. This approach—extracting data...
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The Art of Data Flow Optimization: Harnessing the Energy of Your Data Pipeline
Data flow isn’t just about moving bytes from point A to point B—it’s about understanding...
Real-Time Data Engineering at Scale: Apache Kafka, Flink, and the Rise of Edge AI
In today’s hyper-connected world, the ability to process and analyze data in real time is...
GenAI-Assisted Data Cleaning: Beyond Rule-Based Approaches
Data cleaning has long been the necessary but unloved chore of data engineering—consuming up to...
Observability-Driven Data Engineering: Building Pipelines That Explain Themselves
In the world of data engineering, the old ways of monitoring are no longer sufficient....
Building Self-Healing Data Pipelines: Lessons from Production Failures
At 2:17 AM on a Tuesday, Maria’s phone erupted with alerts. The nightly data pipeline...
The Rise of Polaris: How Snowflake’s New Query Engine is Reshaping Data Science Workflows
When Snowflake announced Polaris, their new distributed SQL query engine, many data science leaders approached...
The Modern Data Engineering Stack: Navigating the 2025 Landscape
The data engineering landscape has transformed dramatically over the past few years. What began as...
AWS Glue vs. Traditional ETL Tools: A Cost-Performance Analysis
When I began modernizing our organization’s data infrastructure last year, we faced the classic build-or-buy...
Iceberg vs. Hudi vs. Delta Lake: Choosing the Right Open Table Format for Your Data Lake
Last year, I helped three different companies implement open table formats for their data lakes....