The Importance of Understanding the Business's Needs

Every business deals in data, but the internet age has ushered in an explosion of the number of different data formats we have to process from a number of different databases to get the job done. Ask any Data Scientist, and they’ll tell you a huge part of their job isn’t data science - it’s data engineering. Acquiring, processing and shipping data, and above all, understanding it. We’ve always had that task in the IT world, but these days it’s a whole discipline.

Today’s podcast sits down with the author of “The Fundamentals Of Data Engineering” to survey the landscape. To understand what data engineering is, and go deep into what a data engineer needs to understand to succeed.