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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

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Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently messy, and as a result, no standard enterprise framework has emerged to dominate the space—and […]
8th Apr 2025

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