Have you ever played “The Whispergame”? You have a group of people and the first person whispers a short story in the next person’s ear. This goes on until the last person of the group has heard the story. Inevitably, the story becomes completely distorted. This is what I hear and see happening in a…
I am a firm believer in (at least on a global level) understanding the data you are working with. One way to do this is to generate testrecords in the source system. This offers several advantages: Not only do you understand the data better which makes for better pipelines, it also forces you to communicate…
4 Words I feared saying at the start of my career: “I do not know…” Nowadays, I still don’t use those words that often. Because I also use: I no longer fear saying “I do not know” anymore, because I realized that it is okay to not know everything. In fact, you can’t know everything.…
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