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Dash vs Streamlit vs React for Data Applications
In many organizations data engineers eventually become the owners of dashboards that originally lived in BI tools like Power BI or Tableau. Over time the requirements for those dashboards…
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Ideas on lean data engineering.
Practical writing on simpler architectures, maintainable analytics systems, and choosing the right level of complexity for the problem in front of you.
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Analytic Tools for Wholesale Food Beverage Distributors
Many wholesale food and beverage distributors assume analytics requires complex dashboards, expensive software, or a dedicated data team. That belief can lead to unnecessary cost and…
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How Data Engineering Teams Can Reduce Costs in 2026: 5 Practical Checks
A new year brings new challenges that will inevitably surface on your data engineering roadmap. The beginning of the year is a great moment to embrace lean data engineering principles and,…
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Five Reasons Why Postgres Should Be Your Data Warehouse in a Modern Data Stack
Many teams assume they need a cloud data warehouse such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake in order to build a modern data stack. This assumption leads to unnecessary complexity and cost,…
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The Lean Table Format
Hudi, Iceberg, and Delta are the hottest jargon in modern data lake design. They bring impressive capabilities to cloud object storage such as ACID transactions, schema evolution, time…
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Stop Paying for Distributed Frameworks You Don't Need
Every week, I come across teams running massive PySpark clusters to process datasets that could easily fit on a single machine. The result? Bloated AWS bills and a false sense of “future…