It is still ongoing, but the trend is really on managed services. Most shops that are still running hadoop distribution are doing it for legacy reasons (and I used to work in one). I mean, just look at job offers: how…
I am only speaking for myself here, but I am really feeling the switch from "data engineering" to "data ops", for whatever that means. In short, 5-10 years ago, writing mapreduce / spark jobs (or even debugging /…
This is spot on, and personally, the main reason why I decided to move to an engineering manager after 10 years as a developer. And even as an engineering manager, I do not feel safe. I think only once you reach…
Ironic thing here is that Hadoop is mostly already outdated. Which is btw one of the depressing thing for a lot of data engineers: we used to play with those cool distributed processing frameworks, and now? We are…
But is the system really responsible for all of this? I mean, if we go back to a more "natural" state, with simpler jobs and with more direct impacts, are we actually happier? Is cutting woods all day long more…
Do we have some tangible numbers on the long term situation of those "quitting tech" people? Like, ok, they open a wind-surfing school, but then what? Does that work, are they more fulfilled and able to work the next…
Is it though? Seems pretty specific to the tech industry (and some others). Never heard that there were crazy interview rounds for experienced lawyers, marketers, project managers, even other non-tech engineers. After a…
What baffles me though is that its not like this crazy interview gauntlet is being maintained purely by HR. Engineers in those big tech companies are very protective towards those processes as well, and loudly protest…
It is still ongoing, but the trend is really on managed services. Most shops that are still running hadoop distribution are doing it for legacy reasons (and I used to work in one). I mean, just look at job offers: how…
I am only speaking for myself here, but I am really feeling the switch from "data engineering" to "data ops", for whatever that means. In short, 5-10 years ago, writing mapreduce / spark jobs (or even debugging /…
This is spot on, and personally, the main reason why I decided to move to an engineering manager after 10 years as a developer. And even as an engineering manager, I do not feel safe. I think only once you reach…
Ironic thing here is that Hadoop is mostly already outdated. Which is btw one of the depressing thing for a lot of data engineers: we used to play with those cool distributed processing frameworks, and now? We are…
But is the system really responsible for all of this? I mean, if we go back to a more "natural" state, with simpler jobs and with more direct impacts, are we actually happier? Is cutting woods all day long more…
Do we have some tangible numbers on the long term situation of those "quitting tech" people? Like, ok, they open a wind-surfing school, but then what? Does that work, are they more fulfilled and able to work the next…
Is it though? Seems pretty specific to the tech industry (and some others). Never heard that there were crazy interview rounds for experienced lawyers, marketers, project managers, even other non-tech engineers. After a…
What baffles me though is that its not like this crazy interview gauntlet is being maintained purely by HR. Engineers in those big tech companies are very protective towards those processes as well, and loudly protest…