Four Software Engineering Best Practices to Improve Your Data Pipelines

From agile to abstraction, thinking about data the way we think about software can save us lots of grief.

Let’s start by getting something important out of the way: there are some major differences between data engineering and software engineering.

At the same time, they’re similar enough that many of the best practices that originated for software engineering are extremely helpful for data engineering, as long as you frame them correctly.

In this article, I’ll …

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