Evaluating trade-offs and designing for agility and scalability. Orchestration: Scheduling and managing complex workflows.
Delivering data for analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence. The Six "Undercurrents"
Applying coding best practices, testing, and design patterns. Why This Book is Essential
Manipulating data into a usable format for downstream users.
Reis and Housley wrote the book to address the "curse of familiarity," where engineers use familiar tools for the wrong tasks. By focusing on first principles, the book helps practitioners: