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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 • 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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How I cut Airbnb's Pricing pipeline backfill time 95%

Data Orchestration challenges I faced in my years at Airbnb, Netflix & Facebook (Part I)

Jul 18 • 

Zach Wilson

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June 2025

How to join the Free 6-week Data Engineer Boot Camp!

I’m releasing a free six week program for data engineers to level up and get better!

Jun 18 • 

Zach Wilson

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April 2025

The 2025 AI-enabled Data Engineering roadmap

AI is making manually writing complex data pipelines a thing of the past!

Apr 25 • 

Zach Wilson

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March 2025

The Battle of Data Lakes: Iceberg vs Delta vs Hudi

We’ve seen the rise and fall of Apache Hive as the default choice when it comes to data lakes.

Mar 20 • 

Zach Wilson

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