Blogs on Data Engineering Blog & Second Brain
If You Always Enjoy It, You're Not Pushing It Hard Enough—Benn Stancil (Show Your Workflow #1)
Writing really is an Emotional Rollercoaster
Figma for Agents: How Airflow's Creator Coordinates AI ft. Maxime Beauchemin
The Act and the Outcome of Creation
The Grammar of Data: Define Once, Run Anywhere with Cross-Engine Expressions
Where AI Agents Belong in Data Engineering: The Correctness Layer
The Process of Smart Note-Taking
Operationalizing Data Orchestration: Best Practices for DevOps, Infra, and Code Locations
Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't—Wes McKinney
Beyond the Semantic Layer: Building a Context Layer for the Agentic Era
Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini
The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability
Internal vs. External Storage? What's the Limit of External Tables
AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters
Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman
Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack with MotherDuck and Rill
Why I Still Blog — and Why the Future of Blogging Is Connected
Git for Data Applied: Comparing Git-like Tools That Separate Metadata from Data
Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck
Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable
Why Coinbase and Pinterest Chose StarRocks: Lakehouse-Native Design and Fast Joins at Terabyte Scale
A Diary of a Data Engineer
Well Being in Times of Algorithms
Opinionated Data Platforms vs. Open-Source: The Chef’s Choice for Your Data Platform
Simplicity of a Database, but the Speed of a Cache: OLAP Caches for DuckDB
Dlt+ClickHouse+Rill: Multi-Cloud Cost Analytics, Cloud-Ready
Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data
Multi-Cloud Cost Analytics: From Cost-Export to Parquet to Rill
Boredom is the New Luxury
4 Senior Data Engineers Answer 10 Top Reddit Questions
Data Modeling for the Agentic Era: Semantics, Speed, and Stewardship
Beyond Basic ETL: Enterprise Data Capabilities Without the Complexity
Why I Don't Research; and Write from Experience
Data Modeling Guide for Real-Time Analytics with ClickHouse
Why Semantic Layers Matter—and How to Build One with DuckDB
My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy
Summer Data Engineering Roadmap
Why Are We Here on Earth? True Happiness, Giving Up Control, or the Trap of Worshipping Earthly Things?
The Data Engineering Toolkit: Infrastructure, DevOps, and Beyond
Has Self-Serve BI Finally Arrived Thanks to AI?
Universal Data Orchestrator in Action: Enterprise Best Practices
The Open Lakehouse Stack: DuckDB and the Rise of Table Formats
Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
The Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Are Betting on Managed Iceberg
Configure, Don't Code: How Declarative Data Stacks Enable Enterprise Scale
The Data Engineer's Guide to Efficient Log Parsing with DuckDB/MotherDuck
The Universal Data Orchestrator: The Heartbeat of Data Engineering
What «Shifting Left» Means and Why it Matters for Data Stacks
Vector Technologies for AI: Extending Your Existing Data Stack
Scaling Beyond Postgres: How to Choose a Real-Time Analytical Database
A Beginner’s Guide to Geospatial with DuckDB
Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living
Why Pivot Tables Never Die
The Data Engineering Toolkit: Essential Tools for Your Machine
Designing a Declarative Data Stack: From Theory to Practice
Semantic Layer and AI: The Future of Data Querying with Natural Language
Universal Semantic Layer: Capabilities, Integrations, and Enterprise Benefits
Building with Bluesky: Inside the New Open Social Network
Exploring the Semantic Layer Through the Lens of MVC
15+ Companies Using DuckDB in Production: A Comprehensive Guide
BI-as-Code and the New Era of GenBI
The Enterprise Case for DuckDB: 5 Key Categories and Why Use It
The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack
My Obsidian Note-Taking Workflow
The Plain Text Workflow: How Vim and Markdown Became My Backbone
Data Modeling - The Unsung Hero of Data Engineering: Architecture Pattern, Tools and the Future (Part 3)
Data Modeling – The Unsung Hero of Data Engineering: Modeling Approaches and Techniques (Part 2)
Data Modeling – The Unsung Hero of Data Engineering: An Introduction to Data Modeling (Part 1)
Pandas 2.0 and its Ecosystem (Arrow, Polars, DuckDB)
Finding My Pathless Path
Modern Data Stack: The Struggle of Enterprise Adoption
Why Vim Is More than Just an Editor – Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained
The Open Data Stack Distilled into Four Core Tools
Data Integration as Code: Configuring Airbyte and dbt with Python (Dagster)
Rust for Data Engineering
The Rise of the Semantic Layer
Data Lake / Lakehouse Guide: Powered by Data Lake Table Formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
Data Orchestration Trends: The Shift From Data Pipelines to Data Products
Personal Knowledge Management Workflow for a Deeper Life — as a Computer Scientist
Building an Analytics API with GraphQL: The Next Level of Data Engineering?
How to Take Notes in 2021?
Saying Goodbye to WordPress, a Homecoming
Building a Data Engineering Project in 20 Minutes
Business Intelligence meets Data Engineering with Emerging Technologies
Email, and the way we (should) communicate at work
Open-Source Data Warehousing – Druid, Apache Airflow & Superset
OLAP, what’s coming next?
Today’s Office – The Location Independent Lifestyle
Tools I Use – Part III
Data Engineering, the future of Data Warehousing?
Data Warehouse vs Data Lake | ETL vs ELT
Tools I Use – Microsoft OneNote – Part II
What Data Warehouse Automation tools are on the market
Why automate? What does Data Warehouse Automation for us?
Why Data Warehouse Automation is not more popular
Data Warehouse Automation (DWA) – Series
Tools I Use
The more you share the more you get..
Migrate from Oracle to Microsoft (Views) – Part III
Migrate from Oracle to Microsoft (Views) – Part II
Migrate from Oracle to Microsoft (Views) – Part I
SSAS Cubes – Dynamic generation of partition
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