SeattleDataGuy; writes and teaches on data engineering, pipelines, and data careers.
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋Today I wanted to review some of the questions I continue to ask myself and data leaders as we take on new projects.Before we jump into today’s...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋If you’ve worked in data for even a few months, someone has likely asked you for real-time data. But if you dig a little deeper you might find that...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As data and software engineers, we love diving into the details of how the tools we use work and why you might want to use one over another. The funny thing...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As companies continue trying to figure out where AI can actually create impact, teams are experimenting with everything from coding assistants and agents to...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As companies continue to try to figure out where AI can be impactful, many employees are constantly trying to upskill and skate to where the puck is going....
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋Today I wanted to talk about one of the major issues I still see companies face in 2026.Data integration.Before we jump into today’s article, I want to...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋Over the past year we’ve seen the FDE role continue to grow in popularity and in the past few weeks there have been several announcements of large tech...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋It’s 2026, and everyone wants to talk about AI engineers, FDEs, and agents. But in almost every company I work with, the real bottleneck is still the...
Last week, I noticed that Anthropic was hiring for a partner success manager.The very first line of the description was:Consulting and systems integration firms are racing to build Claude practices.From there, the...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋As a consultant, I get to work with dozens of data teams a year. One of the benefits of doing so is that I get a good sense of the problems data leaders are...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋After putting together the data pipeline foundations piece last week I realized there was another topic I really wanted to cover.That is, the silent ways...
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋Over the past few years, I’ve written plenty of articles on data pipelines. So I decided to put together those articles and create a central place...
Every morning, your team wakes up to 137 data quality alerts.132 are ignored.3 are acknowledged, maybe you even reach out to the producers of the errors, but they are ignored…2 get fixed.Ok, that might be a bit of...