Real-world insights for data engineers navigating the shift. Written by a practitioner, based on daily experiences. Career advice, technical depth, and consulting when you need it.
Taking Bytes Out of Big Data
Practical advice on staying relevant and growing your career as gen AI reshapes the data engineering landscape.
Governance, metadata management, data quality, responsible AI — the durable skills that matter most right now.
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I was challenged to work out what it would take to think of agents as colleagues. Taken seriously it becomes an operating model: identity, scoped access, governed onboarding context, supervision, evaluation, deprovisioning. Here's what worked when I built that, and the three places it broke.
I ran BigQuery Omni against a real Apache Iceberg lake in AWS S3 to see where cross-cloud querying shines and where it quietly breaks — and why it's a query window, not a data pipeline.
Someone called me a good teacher and I wanted to argue. Here's what mentoring juniors, teaching my six-year-old drums, and handing off platform frameworks taught me about ego, understanding, and why teaching is the real work.
