itcraftsman·2d agoWhat I actually ask in Data Engineering interviews (and the answers that sink candidates)The tool list on a CV is easy to pad. I stay with it until I can tell who built the pipeline, and who was just on the project.A response icon1A response icon1
itcraftsman·4d agoThe Data Engineering Stack for 2027: What I’d Keep, What I’d DropFewer tools, more of them owned by the same company, and a “skip it if” for every recommendation I make.A response icon4A response icon4
itcraftsman·Oct 29Leaving ingress-nginx: Gateway API Is the Target, but Don’t Port Annotations 1:1A straight annotation translation carries nginx’s quirks into your new controller and quietly changes what your rate limits and timeouts…A response icon1A response icon1
itcraftsman·Oct 19What to Run Instead of Microsoft Fabric, and How to Keep Power BIFabric’s shared capacity suits dashboards and hurts pipelines. Six realistic alternatives for the data engineering layer, when each one…A response icon3A response icon3
itcraftsman·Oct 15If I Had 14 Days and a Small Team of Grok Bots, Here’s How I’d Try to Earn My First Money OnlineA plan where the bots do the legwork and you still do the selling
itcraftsman·Oct 13How People Actually Use Grok Bot Well: Four Real Examples and a Practical Setup GuideWhat an official workshop, a seven-bot creator setup, a support team rollout and an honest stress test teach about AI teammates
itcraftsman·Oct 13How to Pass the Data Engineering System Design Interview: Notes from the Interviewer’s SideA repeatable structure for the 45-minute design round, how to handle “we need real-time”, and the failure-mode follow-ups that decide the…A response icon3A response icon3
itcraftsman·Oct 13The Data Modeling Interview: Grain, Star Schemas and SCD Type 2 the Way Interviewers Grade ThemFive dimensional modeling questions I ask data engineering candidates, what weak and strong answers sound like, and the SQL that proves you…A response icon1A response icon1
itcraftsman·Oct 13“What Happens If This Job Runs Twice?” The Interview Question I Use to Test Pipeline DesignHow I probe idempotency, late data and backfills in data engineering interviews, what weak and strong answers sound like, and the SQL…
itcraftsman·Oct 12Your Cron Job Didn’t Fail. It Just Never Ran.Why logs and exit codes miss the worst scheduled-job failures, and how a simple heartbeat ping catches them
