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I help engineering teams and startups design production-ready pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka, and Flink in cloud-native environments.

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Data Engineering

How to Build Data Animation in R

Have you seen any beautiful racing bar chart data animation on Youtube and wondered how it was built? I will show you how to use gganimate in R to animate data by creating a racing bar chart as an example.
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Productivity

How I Found Peace of Mind After Timeboxing

I am tired of continuous rapid context switching and keep being distracted. Interruption kept occurring and continued the next day. Timeboxing helped me find peace of mind in an isolated environment to concentrate on my task.
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Data Engineering

6 Side Project Ideas for New and Experienced Data Engineers

Data engineers can work on some side projects to get experience. Those projects could initiate impressive discussions to help you land a dream job. We will introduce 6 data engineering side project ideas regardless of your experience.
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Data Engineering

Is Apache Airflow Due for Replacement? The First Impression Of mage-ai

Airflow has been widespread for years. Is Apache Airflow due for a replacement? mage-ai is the new ETL tool for data engineers to check out as a substitution. I have taken a first impression of mage-ai and will share my thoughts.
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Data Engineering

Here Is What I Learned Using Apache Airflow over 6 Years

Apache Airflow is undoubtedly the most popular open-source project for data engineering for years. It gains popularity at the right time with The Rise Of Data Engineer. Today, I want to share my journey with Airflow and what I learned over 6 years.
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Data Engineering

How to Visualize Monthly Expenses in a Comprehensive Way: Develop a Sankey Diagram in R

Personal budgeting APP like Mint/Personal Capital/Clarity only provide three limited types of charts. Have you ever wondered if charts are good enough to get better ideas on your monthly income and expense? Are there ways to visualize monthly expenses in a comprehensive way? In this article, I will share with ...
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Data Engineering

Deep Dive into Handling Apache Spark Data Skew

"Why my Spark job is running slow?" is an inevitable question. We will cover how to identify Spark data skew and how to handle data skew with different options, including key salting
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Data Engineering

5 Tips for Self-Promotion as Data Professionals

Getting the work done isn't the journey's end. Your work should be your channel to get YOU self-promotion. I will give five tips to get self-promotion as data professionals
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Data Engineering

Interested In Becoming A Data Engineer? A Glimpse Of The Data Engineering Role

Interested In Becoming A Data Engineer? This article will show a glimpse of the data engineering role and the requirements to become a data engineer to help you make that decision.
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Personal Finance

Five Tips for Saving Money At Target

How to maximize your savings when you shop at Target? I will unveil 5 ways of saving money when you shop at Target to maximize your savings.
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Writing

My Experience with Amazon Affiliate Program on Medium.com in 2023

Amazon Affiliate Program is the best pick as an affiliate marketing program. In this article, we will go through my experience with Amazon Affiliate Program and discuss if we can use it on Medium.com.
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Mental Health

My Life With Depersonalization Derealization Disorder (DPDR)

One of the challenges for me is identifying this blurry feeling. It took me years to find out the name of my issue. Five years ago, I randomly searched for my symptoms. I found Depersonalization Derealization Disorder
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