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Career Guidance
6 May 2026 5 min

Personal Projects That Double as Interview Stories

A personal project helps in an interview only if you can tell a good story about it: a real decision, a setback, a result. Employers say they want examples of skills used to solve problems. This guide shows how to plan projects so they produce those moments, keep a log while you work, and turn them into answers.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

S3 Lifecycle Policies and Storage Cost Savings

S3 Lifecycle rules move objects to cheaper storage classes and delete them on a schedule. This guide explains transition and expiration actions, builds a three-rule configuration for a data lake bucket with boto3, and sets out the charges that catch people out: small objects, minimum durations, versions and archives.

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AWS
6 May 2026 7 min

AWS Glue vs EMR vs Lambda for ETL

Glue, EMR and Lambda can each run ETL code on AWS, and they are built for very different sizes of job. This comparison sets out the hard limits of each, how data volume, control and operations decide the choice, how each is billed, and why most real pipelines end up using two or three of them together.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 5 min

Power BI Deployment Pipelines for Teams

How Power BI teams use deployment pipelines: stages and capacity requirements, which items can be deployed, item pairing and the duplicates it can create, deployment rules that point each stage at the right data, why data needs refreshing after deployment, and a team workflow.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

PySpark vs Pandas: When to Use Which

When to use PySpark and when to use pandas: the same hourly revenue query written in both and checked to give identical answers on three million taxi trips, the eightfold memory cost of loading the data into pandas, eager versus lazy execution, Arrow and toPandas, pandas API on Spark, and a decision guide.

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Python
6 May 2026 7 min

From Python Beginner to Job-Ready: A 6-Month Plan

A six-month Python plan only works if you can tell, each month, whether you are on track. This plan gives a weekly focus for each month and one checkpoint exercise you should be able to write from scratch by its end. All six are solved here on real data, from the Zen of Python to two years of bike rentals.

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