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I try to solve all my problems with a single SQL query.

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Why you need a Data Engineer

Tech evolves quickly. When the buzzword Big Data started showing up more and more, the market was in need of people able to analyse and give meaning to what was collected. For instance, an article published in 2012 by Harvard Business Review was entitled: Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.

Today we have DBA, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, a wealth of options with the "Data" as prefix. More often than not, people put everyone in the same basket and assume everyone knows and has the same set of skills.

From my point of view and perspective as a Data Engineer, these are the differences:

  • DBA - Once the most hated person I ever had in the team. Seriously, why doesn't that human give me the necessary permissions on the database? If I had access, I would have done my job sooner... Well, that was my thought as a Software Engineer at the time. Turns o
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gabidavila / Homestead.rb
Created May 16, 2020 16:23 — forked from svpernova09/Homestead.rb
Ruby Array / Hash Logic to enable / disable Ubuntu Services
# Snippet
# Enable Services
if settings.has_key?('services')
settings['services'].each do |service|
if service.include?('enabled')
enable = service['enabled']
enable.each do |enable_service|
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo systemctl enable #{enable_service}"
end
end
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gabidavila / Homestead.rb
Last active May 16, 2020 16:32 — forked from svpernova09/Homestead.rb
Ruby Array / Hash Logic to enable / disable Ubuntu Services
if settings.has_key?('services')
settings['services'].each do |service|
service['enabled'].each do |enable_service|
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo systemctl enable #{enable_service}"
end if service.include?('enabled')
service['disabled'].each do |disable_service|
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo systemctl disable #{disable_service}"
end if service.include?('disabled')
end
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gabidavila / MySQL NY Meetup Code Of Conduct.md
Last active June 6, 2024 17:00 — forked from vaslabs/Code Of Conduct.md
MySQL NY Meetup Code Of Conduct

MySQL NY Meetup Group Code of Conduct

Our community welcomes participants from around the world with different experiences, unique perspectives, and great ideas to share.

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, sexual identity and orientation, or other such characteristics.

Our Standards

Everybody carry their own bucket of experience, and this is one of our greatest strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness.