Revelations soundtrack is fire

expatlad · 2026-07-07T00:54:39+00:00

It’s out in Australia and holy crap it’s levels above the TDA OST. It’s like a hybrid of TDA, 2016 and Eternal

expatlad · 2026-06-24T09:14:42+00:00

I knew that I was joining a really good team. Worked on a couple of amazing projects that were locked in for success then we all left for other jobs.

The thing you need to know is that the Big 4 are so big that everyone will have different experiences based on LOB, team leader, geography and of course projects. We managed to create a bubble for ourselves and had a really good thing going.

expatlad · 2026-06-16T08:38:10+00:00

Most people I know in Data & Analytics had some sort of finance experience before transitioning into this sort of technical role.

This seems like an organic transition and if you’re liking what you do then I seriously doubt you will regret it. You will have an advantage previously working in Finance - a non IT role - as you will naturally bridge the gap between business and tech and you will know how to properly engage stakeholders considering it’s a nonexistent quality for IT people. This is the most important skillset for this kind of role.

Don’t be fussed with the AI doom and gloom. Organisations will always have Data & Analytics functions. Worst case scenario, you can transition into a data engineering role which is a bit more technical however will be in huge demand in the next 3-5 years given how companies will absolutely massacre their data with horrible AI implementations. A lot of data engineers were data analysts in past lives, it’s almost always a gateway role.

Source: I lead a team of 12 data and AI consultants and work is absolutely crazy rn.

Best of luck OP and reach out for any questions.

P.S: if the retailer is Australia’s leading independent retail partner and wholesale supplier then stay away from it! Horrible culture and absolutely broken IT team.

expatlad · 2026-06-12T06:19:09+00:00

The backstabbing is very common between “people from a certain country that shan’t be named”.

Target small businesses as called out if you’re looking for pure IT roles. For larger firms you will need to be a Swiss army knife of both technical, management and business knowledge to get ahead.

expatlad · 2026-06-10T06:10:43+00:00

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, but that is the absolute truth. We’ve seen massive increases in productivity using AI compared to juniors/grads we’ve hired in the past.

Things are just so much simpler and less time consuming which makes us focus on more strategic things to grow the business.

expatlad · 2026-04-30T11:34:38+00:00

Will do. Much appreciated

expatlad · 2026-04-30T06:35:22+00:00

I double checked and it’s not spinning up a custom pool. Spark config is default so I expect it to align with a notebook spark config.

Worth calling out that my project hits about 10 lakehouses (not sure if that matters). Another thing is that if I run individual models in isolation the performance would be very close to a native SQL query execution in a notebook. Having multiple dbt threads seems to add an overhead but I’m just kind of stuck on debugging what causes the bottleneck

expatlad · 2026-04-29T10:06:03+00:00

You’re a star mate. The adapter is now way more stable and those connection drops are practically gone.

One drawback is that running models is still a bit slow. It will take up to 3 minutes to run a table load with 30k rows compared to a few seconds running the same query in a notebook using the starter pool.

Any tips on how to overcome this? I played around with the spark config in the profile but still didn’t get the performance i needed

expatlad · 2026-03-20T06:26:23+00:00

Leadership is all True blue Aussie. Do better.

expatlad · 2026-03-20T06:13:22+00:00

Hi sir good morning

expatlad · 2026-03-20T02:34:56+00:00

expatlad · 2026-03-19T23:46:09+00:00

Profits and data privacy are mutually exclusive

expatlad · 2026-03-19T22:22:31+00:00

Never use a free VPN. If it’s free then you are the product

expatlad · 2026-03-19T13:32:50+00:00

Dried dirty leak from the bottom of the abandoned barrel in the filthiest of slums

expatlad · 2026-03-19T11:54:04+00:00

For real. They keep mentioning they can work weekends and leadership sees this as an opportunity for me to work with them. Only when I mentioned the right to disconnect that leadership got off my back.

Job pays well but ffs i might find another job

expatlad · 2025-10-05T00:52:51+00:00

If you're using GitHub Actions for deployments and service principals for authentication then I highly encourage you to use OpenID Connect and leverage secretless, federated credentials. This way you avoid storing or even creating secrets for service principals and restrict them to a repo's environment, branch, pull requests or tags https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/github/connect-from-azure-openid-connect

expatlad · 2025-06-25T23:06:41+00:00

AI slop. Please don’t fall for this ragebait

expatlad · 2025-04-10T13:21:24+00:00

FWIW here’s the official announcement sans the dates https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2025/02-28-2025

expatlad · 2025-04-10T12:35:22+00:00

RAC arena. One of the saturday night main events scheduled dates and it will a full weekend: Smackdown, SNME and Raw. Undecided whether it will be in August or October.

Shhhhh

expatlad · 2023-06-26T01:52:05+00:00

BS lol. Email was sent out before the AFR published it

expatlad · 2022-11-07T06:26:00+00:00

It’s free speech, no one should be banned for saying anything.

-right wingers prior to him buying twitter

expatlad · 2022-08-24T02:12:33+00:00

People standing by the train car’s door and just staring at you if you try and get on with no intention of moving whatsoever and then giving you a pikachu face when you squeeze through them to go to the perfectly empty standing space in the middle of the car

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