Sitemap - 2025 - Data Gibberish
How to Plan a Year of Content as a Data Engineering Leader
The Signs Your Data Team Is Becoming a Cost Center
Persuasive Pitch Playbook: The Business Case Framework I Wish Someone Taught Me at 25
How to Prioritize Inbound Work When Everything Looks Important
Why Your Best Ideas End Up as Solo Projects
You Did More Than You Remember
Why Senior Data Engineers Lose Their Velocity (Even When Their Skills Improve)
Data Professionals Are F*ing Delusional
Building Data Teams 101: How to Know Exactly When to Hire Your Next Data Engineer
How great communicators win decisions (even with worse ideas)
Changes & Lessons from ARC Raiders
Workshop: Cross-team data project management with RACI
Stakeholder alignment playbook: Framework to structure high-stakes conversations
6 PRs to open-source greatness with Hacktoberfest
Why trust disappears faster than servers crash when you hide bad news
3 dumb myths keeping data pros quiet
3 awful ways data engineers try to get attention (and what actually works)
Group enablement call, September 2025
Turn data stakeholders into owners with RACI and prevent drive-by requirements
I usually reserve this for paying subs but you’re invited
3 steps to make your data wins impossible to ignore with the impact communication playbook
The 1 hidden, brutal bottleneck costing senior data engineers influence and pay
How to Succeed in Data Engineering Interviews
Why you never get what you need in your data engineering career (and stay stuck at IC)
How to sell your data engineering agenda + group enablement call, August 2025
Ship idempotent reverse ETL in 60 minutes with a ruthless data engineering playbook
How ruthless prioritization got me a 40% raise and a head of data title I didn’t even want
Less than 24 hours to learn the doc that sells your ideas to execs
The hidden career risk of being a "helpful" data engineer
Two exciting updates for next week you won’t want to miss
Prioritization playbook: the one framework to filter data work by business value
Why you’re drowning in reactive data engineering work (and losing your shot at promotion)
4 awkward stakeholder conversations you have to master if you want more money and respect
No one gets hired for clean pipelines
Live Group Coaching July 2025: Real talk, big wins, no fluff
The 3 business metrics every senior data engineer must know
Stop talking about tables. Start talking about revenue, cost & risk
Business value mapping playbook: How to translate data work into executive language
Why stakeholders don’t care about your data engineering work (yet)
How to make your SQL 10x faster (and silence the “AI can’t help with that” crowd)
How to hire your first data engineer (and when not to)
Two massive mistakes that nearly ended my data career
Learn Snowflake in 90 days (without losing your mind)
A battle-tested analytics stack for teams who need speed, clarity, and control
How to build a powerful data engineering portfolio website (even if you suck at frontend) in 4 weeks
If I could start over, this is how I'd build our analytics platform
Data Engineering Migrations Are Hard
Semantic Models: Data Modelling for the Modern Data Stack
5 Red Flags of Mediocre Data Engineers
The Week of a Head of Data Engineering
The Only Guide You’ll Need for Testing Your Data Pipelines With Confidence
Why the Hard Skills Obsession Is Misleading Every Aspiring Data Engineer
Graph Data Structures for Data Engineers Who Never Took CS101
How I Scope Minimum Viable Data Products That Prove Value Fast
How to Build a Job Matrix that Grows Teams and Builds Clarity
13 Command-Line Tools to 10x Your Productivity as a Data Engineer
Turn Raw Data into Action: Master Data Storytelling for Better Communication
Beyond Senior Data Engineer: Skills & Strategies for the Next Big Step
Meet uv: The Blazing-Fast Python Package Manager Data Engineers Love
Europe’s Cloud Crisis: Why US Tech Giants Hold the Power & What Must Change
Why Businesses Ignore Data Engineering (and How to Fix It)
Mastering Apache Airflow: The Hands-On Guide to Workflow Automation
Pass the Behaviour Interview or How to Stop Being A Hater
PySpark Internals Explained: Essential Guide for New Data Engineers
Essential Data Engineering Stakeholders: The Roles That Shape Your Work
Data Lakes For Complete Noobs: What They Are and Why The Hell You Need Them
Level-Up Data Engineering: Write Rock-Solid Python With Strict Typings
How Data Engineers Use DeepSeek to Write High-Impact Documents Faster
CSV vs. Parquet vs. AVRO: Pick the Optimal Format for Your Data Pipeline
Struggling with Keeping Database Environments in Sync? Here’s My Proven Fix
Merge vs Rebase in Git: Data Engineer’s Guide to Choosing the Right Workflow
Level-Up Data Engineering: Block Time, Learn Faster, Achieve More
Data Engineering in 2025 and Beyond: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges