Data Engineering: The Data Field's Unknown Child

Why has nobody explained this to me before?

If you've spent any time around tech content, you've heard of Data Science. You've probably also heard of Data Analytics. Both have flashy job titles, viral LinkedIn posts, and "become a Data Scientist in 6 months" bootcamps aimed squarely at career switchers like me.

But somewhere behind both of them quietly, without the fanfare sits Data Engineering, and almost nobody talks about it.

That silence is exactly why I wanted to write about it first. Because once you understand what Data Engineering actually is, everything else in the data world makes a lot more sense.

So what is Data Engineering, actually?