We talked about:

Ellen’s background
Why Ellen switched from data science to data engineering
The overlap between data science and data engineering
Skills to learn and improve for data engineering
Ways to pick up and improve skills (advice for making the transition)
What makes a data engineering course “good”
Languages to know for data engineering
The easiest part of transitioning into data engineering
The hardest part of transitioning into data engineering
Common data engineering team distributions
People who are both data scientists and data engineers
Pet projects and other ways to pick up development skills
Dealing with cloud processing costs (alerts, billing reports, trial periods)
Advice for getting into entry level positions
Which cloud platform should data engineers learn?


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