Future of Data Engineering & How It Is Being Reshaped By Modern Data
Trends Which are Affecting the Future of Data Engineers In this article, I'll discuss the significant trends in today's data environment and how they effect the data engineering profession. It's important to note that the purpose here is to go broad and shallow, covering a lot of trends at a high level before delving deeper into each trend in separate blog entries. The following are the trends I'd want to cover: Data infrastructure as a service Data integration services Mountains of Templated SQL and YAML ELT > ETL The rise of the analytics engineer Data literacy and specialization on the rise Computation Frameworks Accessibility Democratization of the analytics process Erosion of the semantic layer in BI Decentralized governance Every product is becoming a data product Data Discussion at a Higher Level There will undoubtedly be changes in data engineering solutions "on the ground," but one development that will have a huge impact on enterprises over the ...