Why Your BigQuery SQL Query Will Or Won’t Run
Delve into the subtle technical and situational factors that determine whether your SQL query runs, stalls or fails.
Zach Quinn
Auto-Tag Sensitive BigQuery Data & Never Touch The UI Again
Eliminate a tedious data governance chore after understanding privacy taxonomies and a simple BigQuery API implementation.
Data Engineering’s 3rd “I”
Explaining state: How to maintain it, why pipeline runs need to be identical and breaking down an abstract term.
Coding An End-To-End Credit Card Spend Pipeline In 1 Weekend
Visualizing 48 Months Of Credit Card Spending With PyPDF, SQL & Looker (Part II).
Can’t-Ignore Data Engineering Advancement Habits
Habits for data engineering job seekers, entry-level engineers and veterans looking to level-up.
Testing… Testing… Environments
Categorizing data engineering IDEs to facilitate professional, production-adjacent development.
Visualizing 48 Months Of Credit Card Spending With PyPDF, SQL & Looker
Constrained by the limitations of my credit card’s pre-filtered dashboards, I used Python, SQL & Looker to create my own.
1 Sheet To Get You Hired Or Promoted This Year
How data engineers can wield the power of the “brag sheet” to achieve career-altering results.
These Hobby Coding Projects Saved Me 50+ Hours This Year
4 unconventional but useful data engineering applications I built that saved me at least 50 hours of work and personal time.
Approachable Array Aggregations
Solve a real-life SQL array problem in an easy-to-follow walkthrough.
1 Data Skill Gap Costing Your Org Millions
1 undervalued data engineering skill that, if left unrefined, could cost you or your org millions of dollars.
Thanks(less)giving
4 thankless tasks effective data engineers must do — especially before Q4 and the holiday season.