I'm a Google engineering director who has led engineering teams in consumer technology startups and big companies. In all instances, data engineering teams played a critical role in the business.

Big data engineers develop, maintain, test, and evaluate big data solutions within organizations. Duties include resolving ambiguities in data, performance optimization, and data extraction. Big data ...

Most of the things that make our lives safer, more enjoyable, and more productive are products of engineering. In the late 1970s, computer data were stored on 8-inch "floppy disks" that held 1.2 ...