Crafting the beginning of a vocabulary [originally posted at Engineer of Data Substack] Last week, I wrote: Stateful problems need their own names. We never wrote them. You’ve written idempotent loads, restart logic, dependency chains, promotion configs. By hand. Correctly enough to ship. You already build every one of these. You’re not missing the knowledge. You’re …
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We Borrowed the Tools, Not the Patterns
Data engineering in a software engineering world [originally posted at Engineer of Data Substack] Your orchestration runs. It Just Works every night. You built something real and that is not nothing. The ache isn’t that it’s broken – it’s that it lives in three people’s heads and a folder of conventions nobody wrote down. You …
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