Project Management Glossary  [draft]

June 10, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Eric

Foundation of Project Management  [draft]

Week 1 - Embarking on a career in project management Week 2 - Becoming an effective project manager Key Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities Project Management Responsibilities Planning and organising. Making use of productivity tools and creating processes. Creating plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion. Managing tasks. A project tasks is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a set period of time by you, your team or your stakeholders....

May 28, 2023 · 13 min · 2663 words · Eric

Databricks Data Engineering Professional Preparation  [draft]

01 - Modeling Data Management Solutions Bronze Ingestion Patterns Ingestion Patterns Singleplex: One-to-One mapping of source datasets to bronze tables. Multiplex: Many-to-One mapping, i.e. many datasets are mapped to one bronze table. Singleplex is the traditional ingestion model where each data source or topic is ingested separately. Singleplex usually works well for batch processing. However, for streaming processing of large datasets, if you have many streaming jobs, one per topic, you will hit the maximum limit of concurrent jobs in your workspace....

April 26, 2023 · 5 min · 1024 words · Eric

Exam Guide - Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

General Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional: link Time allotted to complex exam is 2 hours (120 minutes) Exam fee $200 USD Number of questions 60 Question type: multiple choice questions Passing scores is at least 70% on the overall exam Code Example data manipulation code will be in SQL when possible Structured Streaming code will be in Python Runtime version is DBR 10.4 LTS Practice Exam: link Target Audience Data Engineer, >= 2yoe Advanced, practitioner certification Assess candidates at a level equivalent to two or more years with data engineering with Databricks Expectation Understanding of the Databricks platform and developer tools Ability to build optimised and cleaned data processing pipelines using the Spark and Delta Lake APIs Ability to model data into a Lakehouse using knowledge of general data modeling concepts Ability to make data pipelines secure, reliable, monitored, and tested before deployment Out of Scope The following is not expected of a Professional-level data engineer:...

April 25, 2023 · 6 min · 1267 words · Eric

ChatGPT Tips and Tricks

User Scenario Prompt for Cover Letter Write a conversational cover letter for a job application as a [position] at [company] using my resume below as a reference. Draft a persuasive cover letter in 150 words or less highlighting my qualifications and enthusiasm for the [position] at [company] using my resume achievements below. Create a compelling cover letter that explain why I am the best fit for the [position] at [company]. Write the letter using the StoryBrand Framework....

March 27, 2023 · 1 min · 117 words · Eric