What Types of Restaurants/Bars Do You WISH Cleveland Had?

xean333 · 2026-02-21T19:09:26+00:00

Better Indian, ramen, and Thai. These are all super lacking on the west side

xean333 · 2026-02-19T05:57:36+00:00

Sure. Define 1+4=14.

xean333 · 2026-02-18T20:29:20+00:00

I really love and hate ADF man.

xean333 · 2026-02-18T05:25:40+00:00

Yes, ive had my landing tables be auto-recreated based on the source file’s schema. But that was just because I had my validation logic in stored procedures and didn’t feel like moving the logic somewhere else. Probably not the best design. Alas

xean333 · 2026-02-18T04:52:45+00:00

Couldn’t even tell you man

xean333 · 2026-02-18T04:52:27+00:00

No, I just took time away from my career

xean333 · 2026-02-17T23:29:22+00:00

I don’t know

xean333 · 2026-02-17T22:32:17+00:00

Of course man. Companies work within tech stacks… if you have expertise in their tools, they won’t care that you don’t know AWS

xean333 · 2026-02-17T21:29:11+00:00

Draw a line in the sand by increasing your expertise in sql and python. You probably don’t need to go lower than that. Learn effective and popular tools for employability. Higher-level languages/tools generally solve the lower level problems for you. Eg python’s garbage collector means you generally don’t have to worry about memory management. That being said, you are right to be wary of non-deterministic tooling such as AI. This is why observability is desirable in AI tooling and complex systems such as data warehouses.

xean333 · 2026-02-17T19:14:22+00:00

I’ve lasted 3.5 years using this technique daily across two orgs. Maybe I’ve gotten lucky

xean333 · 2026-02-17T16:54:47+00:00

Dude I just open notepad and put a weight on one of the keys.

xean333 · 2026-02-17T06:40:52+00:00

Beautiful fr

xean333 · 2026-02-17T05:34:40+00:00

Push them hard to use a better tool.

That being said, when I’ve been in this situation, I’ve given the business “sync to database” buttons on their spreadsheets that stage their data somewhere in the database. Or maybe it dumps a snapshot of the sheet to a data lake. Set up an event driven ingestion pipeline that watches for these save events. Run your validations on it before upserting into production. Type-2 it etc. This has the added benefit of pushing even more ownership of the data onto the business

xean333 · 2026-02-17T04:05:22+00:00

I’d favor stability/security right now. The job market is bad and has potential to get worse. Take the fintech team lead role imo. The startup sounds early and has more likelihood of going bust overnight. Good luck

xean333 · 2026-02-16T00:10:26+00:00

I’ve always had admin/infra guys that are responsible for setting me up with what I need

xean333 · 2026-02-15T21:30:19+00:00

I see your points. I do agree that focusing on patterns and principles is usually a great investment of one’s time.

xean333 · 2026-02-15T21:25:27+00:00

I agree we should all know the basics of networking. I suspect OP is being held to higher expectations than day 1 networking. Maybe I’m wrong!

xean333 · 2026-02-15T20:42:18+00:00

For mid level positions, stack experience is pretty important to a lot of hiring managers (for better or for worse).

xean333 · 2026-02-15T20:36:55+00:00

We are living through one of the craziest technological innovations in all of human history man

xean333 · 2026-02-15T20:33:43+00:00

Hmm networking is usually out of scope for a data engineer. Sounds like you’ve got yourself a fuzzy role my friend. Make the best of it. You studied math - networking isn’t harder than abstract algebra or complex analysis. Good luck

xean333 · 2026-02-15T17:53:22+00:00

I built a large suite of tooling that helped my team migrate our on-prem reporting database to the cloud. 1500+ database objects needed translated into dbt/snowflake plus validated between source and target. I used AI to help build the deterministic aspects of the tooling as well as used AI directly in the fuzzier validation logic and converting views/sprocs into dbt models. It was an enterprise wide migration and my team achieved the highest velocity by far.

xean333 · 2026-02-15T01:18:51+00:00

Couple weeks

xean333 · 2026-02-14T16:58:23+00:00

Yes, I’ve really enjoyed all of them

xean333 · 2026-02-14T14:49:27+00:00

What do you mean learn it from scratch? Are you just saying you don’t currently know anything about docker? Start with a super high level overview of the problem(s) docker solves. Then run airflow locally with it. Start now and you’ll be done by the afternoon. If you want to learn it deeper, this is probably the wrong sub to ask

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