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Ship idempotent reverse ETL in 60 minutes with a ruthless data engineering playbook
Spend 15 minutes a week in September and finish with a working reverse ETL from Snowflake to HubSpot through Hightouch with clean mapping, change…
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How ruthless prioritization got me a 40% raise and a head of data title I didn’t even want
If you’re drowning in work and still not getting noticed, this is what changes everything
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The hidden career risk of being a "helpful" data engineer
Every time you say yes to a quick favor, you give away the projects that could actually move your career forward. The real skill is knowing which work…
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Prioritization playbook: the one framework to filter data work by business value
Stop drowning in requests and start choosing work that delivers real impact, builds your influence, and gets noticed where it matters.
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Why you’re drowning in reactive data engineering work (and losing your shot at promotion)
Unfiltered data engineering tasks inflate cloud costs, bury your wins, and stall promotions. Learn why one intake rule is your path to visibility.
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Why stakeholders don’t care about your data engineering work (yet)
Because you’re solving the wrong problem and it’s costing you trust, visibility, and growth
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How to make your SQL 10x faster (and silence the “AI can’t help with that” crowd)
A 4-week deep dive into schema-aware prompts, query plans, and AI-assisted indexing, built for engineers who give a damn about performance.
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Yordan Ivanov
A battle-tested analytics stack for teams who need speed, clarity, and control
If you're building an analytics platform from scratch, here's the exact stack I'd use today. Tools, trade-offs, and practical lessons behind a modular…
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If I could start over, this is how I'd build our analytics platform
Here are some hard lessons I learned from the battle grounds of building and migrating data platform tooling
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What is DataOps and why it should be important for you?
Or what every modern data-driven company needs
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Dext switched from ETL to ELT, it’s that easy!
Growing a business without data is hard.
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Migrating from Redshift to Snowflake
This article is part of the Master Snowflake for real-world use playlist.
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