DataExpert.io Newsletter

Data security shouldn't be an afterthought

A practical guide for Data Engineers

Nov 26 • 

Zach Wilson

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Karan Dwivedi

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SCD-2 considered harmful! Part 2

Date stamp your data!

Nov 4 • 

Sahar Massachi

 and 

Zach Wilson

92

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October 2025

The Data Warehouse Setup No One Taught You

Storage is cheap, your time is not!

Oct 24 • 

Zach Wilson

 and 

Sahar Massachi

312

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The 2025 AI + Data Engineering Roadmap

Getting a data engineering job is complicated.

Oct 17 • 

Zach Wilson

176

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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 • 

Zach Wilson

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DuckDB benchmarked against Spark

You Don't Always Need A Sledgehammer

Sep 22 • 

High Performance DE Newsletter

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Zach Wilson

85

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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 • 

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 • 

Zach Wilson

41

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Navigating AI's New Frontier with Chip Huyen

Building, Scaling and Thinking in the Age of AI

Aug 25 • 

Zach Wilson

32

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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 • 

Zach Wilson

33

3

How I got a 12x speed up in a 50 TB pipeline at Meta

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

Aug 4 • 

Zach Wilson

72

7

July 2025

Scaling Netflix's threat detection pipelines without streaming

Data orchestration challenges I faced at Netflix, Airbnb, & Facebook (Part II)

Jul 25 • 

Zach Wilson

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