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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Handling Late-Arriving Data in Pipelines

A practical approach to late-arriving data: event time versus arrival time, lateness measured on 2.9 million real taxi trips, where a midnight report missed 0.81% of each day and a tail lingered for hours, then the fixes: waiting, reprocessing windows, streaming watermarks and late-arriving facts.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

AWS Glue Jobs: PySpark on Serverless Spark

A practical guide to AWS Glue Spark jobs: what a job is, how the script is structured, when to use a DynamicFrame and when a DataFrame, how job bookmarks avoid reprocessing, and how workers and DPUs set the bill. The transform is written as plain PySpark and run locally on 2.96 million rows, then wrapped for Glue.

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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 5 min

Marketing Analytics: Metrics and Dashboards That Matter

The marketing analytics metrics that matter, defined precisely: click-through rate, conversion rate, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend and engagement rate, then applied to 12,330 real shop sessions to compare traffic sources by what they deliver, plus a dashboard layout and attribution traps.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

AWS Interview Questions for Data Engineers, Part 2: The boto3 Coding Round

Many AWS data engineering interviews include a short coding round with boto3. The tasks look simple, but each hides a trap: pagination, retries, duplicates, request limits and key ordering. Here are five such tasks, run against a local AWS emulator, with the trap and the answer that shows experience.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 8 min

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900): A Quick-Start Guide

AZ-900 is Microsoft's entry-level Azure exam: 45 minutes on cloud concepts, core Azure services, and management and governance. This guide gives the current outline with its weights, explains the ideas behind each area in plain terms, covers format, scoring and retakes, and sets out a three-week study plan.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 7 min

Creating Calculated Columns vs Measures in Power BI

The simplest test for calculated columns versus measures in Power BI is whether the value should change when someone filters the report. Columns are worked out once at refresh; measures respond to every filter. A worked example on bike-sharing data shows what happens to running totals and ranks when you choose wrongly.

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