Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data engineers engineer. Obviously they do, the clue is in ...

What’s the difference between a data engineer and a data analyst? Data isn’t much good without people who know how to collect it, shape it, and explain what it means. That’s where data engineers and ...

It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing data engineering, reshaping how information is collected, transformed, ...

Though the AI era conjures a futuristic, tech-advanced image of the present, AI fundamentally depends on the same data standards that have been around forever. These data standards—such as being clean ...

What if you could future-proof your career by stepping into one of the most in-demand tech roles of the decade? As companies increasingly rely on data to drive decisions, the role of a data engineer ...

Mukul Garg is the Head of Support Engineering at PubNub, which powers apps for virtual work, play, learning and health. In my journey through data engineering, one of the most remarkable shifts I’ve ...