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12 Steps to Better Data Engineering

Let me tell you about the moment I stopped trusting architecture diagrams. I was three days into a new role, getting up to speed with the data team. Smart people. Modern stack. On paper, everything looked right. They walked me through a beautiful data platform diagram: clean lines, labelled layers, colour-coded domains. It looked like something you’d see in a data conference. Then I asked a question that changed everything: “Can you rebuild your finance table from scratch right now?”

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Saturday, March 7, 2026 Read
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Leveraging LLMs for Business Impact: Part 2 - Building an AI Data Engineer Agent

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we explored the theoretical foundations of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases. Now, it’s time to put theory into practice. This is going to be a long read, so grab some coffee, and one (couple) of your favourite biscuits. One use case for leveraging LLM’s, is creating of a Agent - a Senior Data Engineer AI that automatically reviews Pull Requests in your data engineering projects. This agent will be that nit picky Data Engineer that enforces SQL formatting standards, ensure naming and data type consistency, validate data quality checks, and suggest improvements based on best practices. By integrating this into your GitHub workflow, you can maintain higher code quality, accelerate onboarding for new team members, and reduce the burden of manual code reviews.

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Saturday, March 8, 2025 Read