Getting a data engineering job is complicated. After the crowd of people screaming “LEARN PYTHON AND SQL,” you’ll find yourself lost in a sea of technologies such as Spark, Flink, Iceberg, BigQuery, etc. Knowing where to start and how to get a handle on this requires some guidance. This newsletter is going to unveil all the steps needed to break into data engineering in 2024!

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Learn about the necessary skills and steps to break into data engineering in 2024. Topics covered include learning SQL, Python or Scala, distributed compute, data modeling, building a portfolio project, and building a brand for interviews.

The 2024 breaking into data engineering roadmap

Learning Distributed Compute (either Spark, BigQuery or Snowflake)

Building a portfolio project that actually land jobs