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The 2026 AI Data Engineer Roadmap

And how to avoid getting replaced

Feb 5 • Zach Wilson

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December 2025

Processing 1 TB with DuckDB in less than 30 seconds

And so can you

Dec 23, 2025 • Matt Martin and Zach Wilson

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November 2025

Data security shouldn't be an afterthought

A practical guide for Data Engineers

Nov 26, 2025 • Zach Wilson and Karan Dwivedi

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SCD-2 considered harmful! Part 2

Date stamp your data!

Nov 4, 2025 • Sahar Massachi and Zach Wilson

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October 2025

The Data Warehouse Setup No One Taught You

Storage is cheap, your time is not!

Oct 24, 2025 • Sahar Massachi and Zach Wilson

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The 2025 AI + Data Engineering Roadmap

Getting a data engineering job is complicated.

Oct 17, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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September 2025

Stop grinding leetcode for data engineer interviews!

Landing a role in big tech and “grinding leetcode” have gone together like peanut butter and jelly for the last ten years.

Sep 24, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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DuckDB benchmarked against Spark

You Don't Always Need A Sledgehammer

Sep 22, 2025 • Matt Martin and Zach Wilson

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Migrating 13,000 Iceberg Tables in 4 hours to Glue Catalog

At midnight on September 16th, Jason Reid (data engineering advocate at Databricks) messages me on LinkedIn saying, “Tabular will be sunsetted in 24…

Sep 17, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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August 2025

Three Free Tech Bootcamps That Could Change Your Career

How to become a Solutions Architect, Mastering the Foundations of Cybersecurity and the Absolute Basics in Data Engineering

Aug 27, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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Navigating AI's New Frontier with Chip Huyen

Building, Scaling and Thinking in the Age of AI

Aug 25, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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Stopping Silent Failures for Meta's Fake Accounts Pipeline

Data Orchestration Challenges I Faced at Airbnb, Netflix & Facebook – Part IV

Aug 12, 2025 • Zach Wilson

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