We talked about:
- Ellen’s background
- Why Ellen switched from data science to data engineering
- The overlap between data science and data engineering
- Skills to learn and improve for data engineering
- Ways to pick up and improve skills (advice for making the transition)
- What makes a data engineering course “good”
- Languages to know for data engineering
- The easiest part of transitioning into data engineering
- The hardest part of transitioning into data engineering
- Common data engineering team distributions
- People who are both data scientists and data engineers
- Pet projects and other ways to pick up development skills
- Dealing with cloud processing costs (alerts, billing reports, trial periods)
- Advice for getting into entry level positions
- Which cloud platform should data engineers learn?
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