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Ep. #9, The Argument for Less Specialization with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs

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Data Engineers - What's the Right Level of Specialization?

Millis: When I joined QuizUp, I was hired as a data analyst. But obviously I had the same experience as you, which is there are more pressing issues to be solved here. Millis: Data these days has almost become like a superset of like software engineering. So that's a bad thing because it's full. That stack is full. You can't fit more stuff in there. And so I think there's a lot of reasons why actually like, why do we like normalize things around what software engineers is doing?

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