The author reflects on turning 44, discussing the impact of AI on the job market for junior developers, personal growth, and the influence of family. He shares experiences with cooking, particularly making tofu, and the challenges...
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The author discusses various experiences, including helping his mom with a home rebate program, digitizing old media, attending a conference on AI, and playing tennis with different skill levels. He also reflects on the impact of ...
The text discusses the unique challenges of data engineering, particularly in relation to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Anthropic. It highlights the importance of understanding data sources and data lineage when us...
The text is a mix of stories from past trips to Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia. It includes experiences in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Mostar, Bosnia. The author discusses the impact of tourism on local communities, the history of the ...
The text discusses the state of data engineering in 2025 Q1, focusing on agentic systems, AI updates, and data highlights. It also covers the Open Table Format wars, guidelines for data engineering technology selection, and update...
The text is a newsletter about the state of data engineering in Q3 2024. It discusses various topics such as Open Table Formats, Apache Iceberg Rest Spec, Amazon Data Engineering ecosystem, Prompt Engineering, Open Table Format Wa...
The text is about the author's experience with dentists and orthodontists, and the process of getting braces to fix an underbite. It includes various consultations, experiences with different dentists, and the challenges and outco...
The text discusses the state of data engineering in 2024 Q2, focusing on the use of AI in data engineering, data migration, and predictions for the future. It also covers the ongoing OTF wars, Amazon's S3 Express Zones, and new da...
The text is about the author's experiences and reflections on his Vietnamese heritage, including his family's history during the Vietnam War, his return to Vietnam, and his observations about the country's culture and society.
The author discusses his experience of cutting his own hair during the pandemic, the challenges he faced, the equipment he used, and the cost savings he achieved. He also reflects on the long-term financial benefits of doing thing...
The author recounts the experience of his father's terminal illness, from the diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer to his passing. He describes the challenges of caring for his father at home, the financial implications, and the grie...
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, with traditional boundaries between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses overlapping. Open Source Table Formats (OTF) are gaining popularity, w...
The State of Data Engineering in 2023 Q3 is seeing changes, with a focus on Generative AI and Apache Iceberg. Generative AI is being used for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pattern, but there are concerns about hallucination...