Changing Jobs in the Age of AI A reflection on career and change as a data engineer with six years of experience, navigating the age of AI. 2026-08-30 etc. > reviews #engineer #developer #data-engineer #career #job-change
Why You Shouldn’t Always Use dropDuplicates for Deduplication in PySpark This article analyzes why dropDuplicates() is slow for deduplicating large PySpark datasets (due to its first aggregation over all columns and memory overhead), and shares an optimization case study d 2025-06-17 BigData > engineering #pyspark #spark #data-engineering #big-data #performance #optimization #deduplication #row_number #dropDuplicates #window-functions
Relationship Safety Also Needs a Checkup To prevent repeated dating violence and relationship-related tragedies,I built a simple test that helps anyone check for subtle warning signs in their romantic relationships. 2025-06-01 SeriesHub > fixground notes #experiment #self-assessment #relationship #dating-violence #test #social-issue
Terraform, How a Small Data Team Survived This post shares the lessons learned and structural decisions we made while adopting Terraform in a small data team. We also highlight key choices that helped us reduce errors and improve maintainabil 2025-04-20 DevOps > terraform #terraform #iac #infra #data engineering #small team #terraform cloud
ChatGPT as a Data Analyst with DuckDB + S3 In this post, I’ll walk you through how I connected ChatGPT to my own dataset stored in S3 using DuckDB, and had the AI analyze it like a real data analyst. 2025-03-30 MachineLearning > experiment #DeepLearning #LLM #ChatGPT #openai #FastAPI #DuckDB #S3 #AI