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The 6 Soft Skills Data Engineers Need to Succeed

Soft skills can be almost as important as data engineering skills when you apply for a job. Soft skills can make the difference between stress and efficiency or being unsatisfied with your position and a raise. When data engineers and data scientists earn bachelor’s degrees, they usually take classes in topics like data warehousing, programming languages, machine learning, and data science.

Five Strategies to Accelerate Data Product Development

With this first article of the two-part series on data product strategies, I am presenting some of the emerging themes in data product development and how they inform the prerequisites and foundational capabilities of an Enterprise data platform that would serve as the backbone for developing successful data product strategies.

Accelerating Code Quality with DORA Metrics

What do Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Rollbar have to do with each other? DORA identified four key metrics to measure DevOps performance and identified four levels of DevOps performance from Low to Elite. One way for a team to become an Elite DevOps performer is by focusing on Continuous Code Improvement.

Getting Started with Accessibility Testing in Sauce Labs (Deque axe Integration)

Watch this video to learn how Sauce Labs and Deque axe integration allows developers and testers to easily integrate accessibility testing into their quality processes and provides increased visibility into accessibility signals for browser-based accessibility testing.

Scaling Service Mesh Globally and Across Environments

A true service mesh should focus on how to manage and orchestrate connectivity globally. Connecting a new service mesh for each use case is a much simpler problem to solve, but doing so won’t help you scale. You’ll just be throwing a service mesh in each cluster and calling it a day.  The more appealing solution is to stitch together environments.