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