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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

How To Become a Data Engineer P5: Mettle

If you’ve been following this series, we’ve spoken about what mindset we need in order to get started, the overall fundamentals and skills…

6 min readMar 12, 2024

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How To Become a Data Engineer P5: Mettle

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

How to Become a Data Engineer P4: Build

Thank you for continuing to read this series. If this is your first time here, I’d recommend starting with How to Become a Data Engineer…

4 min readFeb 4, 2024

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How to Become a Data Engineer P4: Build

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

How to Become a Data Engineer P3: Essentials

In part 2, we looked at what I’d consider to be the fundamental technical skills required to move towards becoming a Data Engineer. These…

5 min readNov 22, 2023

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How to Become a Data Engineer P3: Essentials

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

How to Become a Data Engineer P2: Fundamentals

Welcome to P2 of this series. As we’ve already established what mindsets you need before embarking on this journey, let’s take a look at…

5 min readOct 17, 2023

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How to Become a Data Engineer P2: Fundamentals

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

How to Become a Data Engineer P1: Mindset

You would imagine Data Engineering communities would be filled with questions about the intricacies of computer science and how to min-max…

6 min readOct 4, 2023

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How to Become a Data Engineer P1: Mindset

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MikeDoesEverything

Advice Aspiring Data Engineers Really Need To Ignore

“SQL easy -> SQL medium -> Python easy -> AWS -> sql medium hard -> Python medium -> spark -> more AWS -> more leetcode”

5 min readSep 17, 2023

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Advice Aspiring Data Engineers Really Need To Ignore

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer

What do you actually do?

6 min readSep 1, 2023

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A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer

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MikeDoesEverything

How Not to Write a CV/Resume for Programming

You’ve decided that Data Engineering is absolutely the career for you. You’ve started learning a couple of languages, maybe purchased a few…

5 min readAug 3, 2023

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How Not to Write a CV/Resume for Programming

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MikeDoesEverything

Career Changing: Failure Isn’t Always Bad

“So, whilst I ended up being rejected for some other jobs, I got this amazing one instead! Everything happens for a reason”

5 min readJul 23, 2023

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MikeDoesEverything
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Art of Data Engineering

Why Obsessing Over Job Requirements Leads to Confusion

“Why do data engineers have so much to learn?”

5 min readJul 16, 2023

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Why Obsessing Over Job Requirements Leads to Confusion

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MikeDoesEverything

MikeDoesEverything

Former scientist turned Data Engineer. I share my experiences of struggling as a self taught dev and alternative views on the modern Data Engineering landscape.

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