



6 episodes
by Data Engineering in Real Life · English
Long Live the Data Engineer. No holds barred. Talking about Data Engineering news, topics, and general mayhem. dataengineeringcentral.substack.com









How AI changes software engineering, hiring, and career paths—arguing engineers must shift from “code output” to leverage, fundamentals, communication, and ownership.
11 Nov 2026 · 54m · 19 chapters
Life after leaving Big Tech, using backpacking lessons to rethink job security, financial planning, and adaptability amid AI-driven layoffs.
4 Nov 2026 · 50m · 24 chapters
Maria Vechtomova discusses “AI as a mirror” for engineering maturity—why MLOps/LLMOps must ensure reproducibility, observability, evaluation, and governance, and how LLM workflows add non-determinism…
30 Sep 2026 · 50m · 28 chapters
The future of data engineering with AI—how data platforms and pipelines will change, what skills remain essential, and why governance/monitoring become critical for agentic systems.
16 Sep 2026 · 47m · 18 chapters
A laid-off Big Tech software engineer (AsianDadEnergy) recounts his career path, a high-stress pre-layoff project involving an open-source framework bug, and how he coped financially and mentally…
9 Sep 2026 · 49m · 22 chapters
LakeSail CEO Shehab Amin discusses rebuilding Apache Spark and Apache Rust for the AI era, turning data pipelines into AI pipelines.
2 Sep 2026 · 57m · 29 chapters