PinnedZach QuinnNew To My Work? Start HerePlus this week’s most engaging story (refreshed weekly).Feb 10, 20231Feb 10, 20231
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceJupyter v. VS Code — The Petty IDE Battle That Really Shouldn’t MatterBut since it does: 3+ years’ of development opinion from a data engineer who works in both Jupyter Notebook and VS Code IDEs.1d ago1d ago
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceParse 12 Months Of Credit Card Statements In 3 MinutesHow to use Python to read multi-page PDFs, transform unstructured data and SQL to format the final result in BigQuery.Sep 30Sep 30
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceCorrupted File… Or Just Zipped?How to identify, decode and work with zipped files in bytes form in Python.Sep 23Sep 23
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceAm I Coding Too Fast?How to discover, increase and maintain development pace to churn out code that works as efficiently as you do.Sep 16Sep 16
Zach QuinnM-I-C-K-E-Y… F-UDespite grossing 20 billion in Q3 revenue, Disney is cutting a key employee benefit.Sep 10Sep 10
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceWhy I Nearly Turned Down A 30k Raise And A Data Engineering JobA 3-year data engineering retrospective with 3 pieces of unsolicited advice.Sep 92Sep 92
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceSet Up A Virtual Environment In A Compute Engine VM In 5 Min.Set up a virtual environment, install Python & pip and run Python scripts in a Google Cloud Compute Engine virtual machine.Sep 2Sep 2
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceWhen Isn’t Automation Worth It?A simple formula to calculate ROI on development time.Aug 261Aug 261
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceForget Your Sprint — When Data Engineering Tasks Must Be Completed In The Same DayWhen data engineers must meet an 8-hour, same-day deadline and how to get it done with minimal panic.Aug 191Aug 191