Introducing The Show

• Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data infrastructure
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• I’m your host, Tobias Macey, and today I’m speaking with Maxime Beauchemin about what it means to be a data engineer.

• Who am I
• Systems administrator and software engineer, now DevOps, focus on automation
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• How did I get involved in data management
• Why am I starting a podcast about Data Engineering
• Interesting area with a lot of activity
• Not currently any shows focused on data engineering
• What kinds of topics do I want to cover
• Data stores
• Pipelines
• Tooling
• Automation
• Monitoring
• Testing
• Best practices
• Common challenges
• Defining the role/job hunting
• Relationship with data engineers/data analysts
• Get in touch and subscribe
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The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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