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Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique disciplin...

There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interface...

Here is this quarter’s state of data engineering newsletter. There is only a little chat about AI this time, and a focus on Open Table Formats, the Apache Iceberg Rest Spec, Open Table Format updates, and new updates in the Amazon Data Engineering e...