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		banku_brougham 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data engineering and software engineering are conv... If are orchestrating pipelines in airflow or Prefect you are having to write the client software around those engines, and its a lot of python. Another anecdatum: the data engineers role at Zillow is called "Software Development Engineer, Big Data"

craneca0 8 months ago [–]

That's interesting with the Zillow anecdote. I wonder if the nuance in the title is actually correlated with a difference in behavior/culture/best practices/approach?

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