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raghav sharma6d ago • 5 min read
Technically Right, Organisationally Impossible
The architecture is correct. You cannot build it. Not for technical reasons, but because of who woul...
#ai#dataengineering#productivity#learning
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Ramkumar M NAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Teradata, Explained Like the Warehouse That Was There First
Every large, established company seems to have one: a big, powerful data system
#datawarehouse#dataengineering#sql#database
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Mohamed Hussain SAug 21, 2026 • 8 min read
Understanding the ORC File Format: Why Is It So Fast
Every article about ORC says the same thing. "Columnar storage, built-in indexes, predicate pushdow...
#dataengineering#bigdata#database#python
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raghav sharmaAug 23, 2026 • 5 min read
Claude Assumed You Were Building Greenfield. You Were Not.
The recommendation is clean, modern and sensible. It also assumes you do not have an Airflow instanc...
#ai#dataengineering#productivity#learning
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DataDriven6d ago • 7 min read
Your Take-Home Was Free Labor. The Data Proves It.
DE take-homes now run 20 hours. Senior engineers fail new-grad screens. Loops last 90 days. The inte...
#dataengineering#interview#career#beginners
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DataDrivenAug 20, 2026 • 6 min read
61% of AI Cheaters Get Offers. Honest Engineers Lose.
48% of candidates use AI in interviews despite bans. 61% of them get offers anyway. The cost lands o...
#dataengineering#interview#career#beginners
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MukeshAug 21, 2026 • 4 min read
Filter-After-Slice: The Bug That Quietly Broke Our Deduplication Window
Every night, an autonomous agent I run scans Hacker News, pulls out two takeaways, and appends them....
#dataengineering#python#ai#debugging
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raghav sharmaAug 21, 2026 • 5 min read
You Are Describing the Symptom, Not the Problem
You ask why there are nulls in the report and get good advice about handling nulls. The nulls were n...
#ai#dataengineering#productivity#learning
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Eduardo Rabelo6d ago • 8 min read
Declarative Automation Bundle: Bind an Existing Lakeflow Job
A matching YAML configuration file does not adopt the Lakeflow Job already in your workspace. Bind.....
#databricks#cloud#dataengineering#dab
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Anakin6d ago • 5 min read
Building a food delivery pricing monitor that does not lie to you
Build a practical competitor pricing and promotion data pipeline for food delivery, including scrapi...
#webscraping#dataengineering#analytics#python
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Arpit GuptaAug 22, 2026 • 3 min read
DataTalk #Day 0: An AI Agent That Talks to Your Database
Generating SQL with an LLM is easy. Building a system that knows when the SQL is wrong is the real.....
#ai#dataengineering#programming#agents
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Gyan SolutionsAug 20, 2026 • 5 min read
Why Pharma ERP Dashboards Don't Create Supply Chain Visibility: The Data Architecture Behind Better Decisions
A dashboard is a presentation layer. It renders whatever the underlying systems agree to give it. If...
#architecture#systemdesign#api#dataengineering
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Sergey RudenkoAug 24, 2026 • 11 min read
Moving Oracle to PostgreSQL with a Single `INSERT` — No Oracle Client, No Python
How to turn an embedded OLAP engine into a compact, lightning-fast ETL/ELT pipeline with no CSVs and...
#dataengineering#duckdb#oracledatabase#postgres
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Samer KarwandeAug 21, 2026 • 3 min read
Designing an Audit-Ready Environmental Compliance Tracker
Environmental compliance data is often scattered across calendars, laboratory reports, waste...
#productivity#dataengineering#sustainability#tutorial
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PBIDocs6d ago • 3 min read
Power Query Error: We Couldn't Convert to Number (or Date)
The instinct is to assume the source data is just messy. Sometimes it is — but just as often, the...
#powerquery#dataengineering#troubleshooting
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Bobby RayAug 21, 2026 • 5 min read
Data Quality Contracts in Production Pipelines (Without a Separate Platform Team)
How to layer row-level quarantine at ingestion and YAML dataset contracts at the quality boundary â€...
#dataengineering#python#dbt#dataquality
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Samer KarwandeAug 21, 2026 • 2 min read
A Practical Data Workflow for HAZOP and QRA Studies
Safety studies often fail for a surprisingly ordinary reason: the data trail is hard to reproduce. ...
#tutorial#productivity#dataengineering#riskmanagement
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Aurelio NakamuraAug 20, 2026 • 3 min read
How to preview a Parquet file without Python, pandas, or a running service
Someone hands you events.parquet. You just want to see what's inside: the columns, the types, a few....
#tutorial#dataengineering#showdev#python
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Ethan Carter6d ago • 7 min read
Build a Data Lake on S3-Compatible Storage
A data lake on S3-compatible storage is an object bucket holding open file formats (Parquet, ORC,...
#datalake#s3#objectstorage#dataengineering
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ElvisAug 23, 2026 • 2 min read
My First GitHub Project: From a Local Folder to GitHub Using Git and SSH
I thought that when i join Lux Dev i would jump straight into building complex data pipelines and...
#github#dataengineering#git
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OmUniyalAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
I built a terminal SQL workspace for CSV files — and made it catch bad data automatically
Every time I get a new data file, I do the same three things. Open it in Excel to get a feel for it...
#python#opensource#dataengineering#beginners
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Anthony KibetAug 21, 2026 • 4 min read
Linux in Real-World Data Engineering
Linux is the one most people never see at all, even though it's running underneath almost everything...
#cloud#dataengineering#infrastructure#linux
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joni sarAug 23, 2026 • 24 min read
Managed Data Lake: A Guide for 2027
A practitioner's guide to making your Iceberg data lake self-managing — from understanding why lakes...
#datalake#iceberg#dataengineering#lakehouse
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Eduardo RabeloAug 21, 2026 • 10 min read
Unity Catalog Schemas in Declarative Automation Bundles Are a Footgun
Why mode: development quietly renames your schemas, why the official escape hatch makes things worse...
#databricks#dataengineering#cloud#tooling
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