Build a Spark Pipeline: Batch and Streaming End to End · Apache Spark

Why a Folder of Parquet Is Not a Table · Apache Spark

How Structured Streaming Actually Works · Apache Spark

How Spark Re-Plans Your Query While It Runs · Apache Spark

Where Spark's Memory Actually Goes · Apache Spark

Why Parquet Is Fast · Apache Spark

How Spark Decides to Join · Apache Spark

Why Your PySpark UDF Is Slow · Apache Spark

Why DataFrames Beat RDDs · Apache Spark

How Spark Turns Your Query Into a Plan · Apache Spark

How the Spark Shuffle Works · Apache Spark

How a Spark Job Becomes Stages and Tasks · Apache Spark

What an RDD Actually Is · Apache Spark

What Actually Runs Where When You Submit a Spark Job · Apache Spark

Why Spark Exists (And What MapReduce Got Wrong) · Apache Spark

Batch, Streams and CDC · Data Systems

How Databases Store Data · Data Systems

How Consensus Works · Data Systems

Linearizability and Causality · Data Systems

How Database Transactions Work · Data Systems

Why Distributed Systems Fail · Data Systems

How Sharding Works · Data Systems

How Database Replication Works · Data Systems

How Services Encode Data · Data Systems

How Databases Model Data · Data Systems

Policy, Cost, Monitoring & IaC · Azure

Protecting What You Built · Azure

VNets to Front Door · Azure

The Analytics Estate · Azure

Functions, Events & Integration · Azure

SQL, Cosmos & Cache · Azure

Accounts, Blob & the Lake · Azure

VMs to AKS · Azure

Entra ID & RBAC · Azure

What Azure Is · Azure

Owning the Room · Soft Skills

Introducing Yourself · Soft Skills

Thinking Under Pressure · Soft Skills

The Stories You Tell About Your Work · Soft Skills

Listening Is the Other Half · Soft Skills

Saying It Simply · Soft Skills

What They See Before You Speak · Soft Skills

Your Voice Is an Instrument · Soft Skills

Why You're Not Being Heard · Soft Skills

Semantic Layer, Metrics & Cost · dbt

Jobs, State, defer & Slim CI · dbt

Docs, Exposures, Access & Mesh · dbt

Jinja, Macros & Packages · dbt

Tests, Contracts & Unit Tests · dbt

Sources, Seeds & Snapshots · dbt

Views, Tables & Incremental Models · dbt

Models, ref() & the DAG · dbt

ELT, dbt Core & Your First Run · dbt

Architecture, Editions & Pricing · Snowflake

Virtual Warehouses & Caching · Snowflake

Micro-partitions, Tables & Views · Snowflake

Stages, COPY & Snowpipe · Snowflake

Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables & Procedures · Snowflake

RBAC, Masking & Governance · Snowflake

Time Travel & Zero-Copy Cloning · Snowflake