Stop Feeding Me AI Slop
Now the 1x engineer can become a 10x, and 0.5x engineer can become 5x engineer but there is a catch
When to Say No to “Platform Work”
Stop building paved roads to nowhere
Why Your 5-Second BigQuery Query Isn’t Cheap
The friendly lie of serverless, the hidden truth of slot-time, and how not to wreck production by accident.
BigQuery Explained: What Really Happens When You Hit “Run”
What if we removed all the crap and just left SQL and hardware?
What Do You Think?
The 4 Most Underrated Words in Leadership
The Golden Age of dbt
How dbt became the backbone of modern data engineering
AI Fluency Expectations
You AI or You Die
Compaction in Lakehouse
Why Tiny Files Break Big Data
How the Community Turned Into a SaaS Commercial
Can We Bring Back the Soul?
Choosing the Right Compression Codec
A guide for people who move data
Words Are the New Bytecode
You're not a full-stack developer anymore. You're a full-stack thinker.
Only the Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil
In an ideal world, your work speaks for itself. But we don't live in a fairy tale.
Data Partitioning: Partition. Regret. Repeat
Partition early. Partition wisely.
Why Parquet Is the Go-To Format for Data Engineers
With more practical lessons to help you with the data engineering journey
Data Partitioning: Slice Smart, Sleep Better
Partitioning is an architecture, not an optimization