data engineer

“Data analysts and data engineers tend to waste around one to three hours per day on duplicating work that someone else has already done.”

“If a single time series table worked, you wouldn't have 20 or 30 data engineers building tables to answer questions.”

“The additional cost of compute and storage to replicate the extra data, to do those steps, those transformation steps inside the warehouse Are so small now, you know, they're less than what it's going to cost you to pay your data engineer for a week to build y…”

“Data engineers shouldn't want to be spending their days expressing business logic. Like how do you amortize revenue across multiple periods? They are technologists. They should want to be thinking about platforms and scalability and all of these like hard tech…”

“If you really break down what a data engineer is, at the end of the day, that their job is to get data from one place to the next, right? So all you really need to know is three things. Where my data's coming from, where my data's going, and what format does i…”

“So today, majority of our user base, I would say about 65 to 70% are data analysts and data engineers.”

“I just think that as a data engineer, if you have to actually go ahead and maintain a pipeline, being able to see the actual data manipulated really increases your productivity.”

“One of the things, one of the transitions that Joe and I went through, which I think a lot of people in this room went through, was the transition from the Hadoop world, from the previous big data world, into this new, like, cloud-based data engineering snack,…”

“So I think we're a few years away from just like replacing data engineers, which has been the goal for what it feels like a decade or plus now.”