AgileData Newsletter #22
Notification Alerts
When you have a production data platform, there are things that run based on regular schedules, there are things that run based on event triggers, there are things that run on manual triggers.
Mostly these things run successfully, sometime they don't, sometimes they do but look weird.
Keeping track of what ran and when is a problem.
So we added notification alerts so you can know what is happening as soon as it happens.
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Data Engineering Podcast
Late in 2022 Shane Gibson was a guest on the Data Engineering Podcast and chatted to Tobias Macey about combining agile patterns and practices with those from the data domain.
Listen to the episode, or read the transcript.
Read more at AgileData.io
Continuous Delivery
We love the idea of reducing cost of change.
If we can make change fast enough, if we can make it agile enough, if we can make it quick enough, if we can make it cheap enough, then we introduce the ability to experiment, the cost of failing is so low, we will keep just trying it.
Just one of the many great insights we got from the Continuous Delivery podcast with Bryan Finster
Listen to the No Nonsense Podcast or read the transcript at agiledata.io
Leadership
One of the major things we see contributing to a successful data team adopting a new Agile Way of Working is a leader who is supporting them.
Unfortunately we often see people with the title of leader, who act like a manager.
How can you spot the difference? Glad you asked....
Read more at AgileData WoW
A DataOps and Data Science Journey
DataOps and Data Science a match made in heaven.
In our experience there are very few Data Scientist "unicorns" out there who can do all the data work on their own.
We get greater success when we form small teams that combine Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
Join Shane as he chats to Hamish and Liam in a pub in the middle of the North Island about their journey to adopting a way of working that combines DataOps with Data Science.