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Data Gibberish
Data Gibberish
Data Gibberish helps experienced data engineers and data leads handle stakeholder requests, scope pressure, and decision-making with scripts, checklists, and playbooks you can use immediately.

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The Customer Service Mindset Is The Fastest Way To Destroy Your Data Team
Treating your engineering team like a help desk is a fast track to low-impact work, invisible contributions, and a department full of replaceable…
 • Yordan Ivanov
Data Engineers Are Becoming MetadataOps Engineers (And You Don't Even Know It Yet)
The paradigm shift from serving dashboards to powering AI systems: same foundation, new layer on top.
 • Alejandro Aboy
Deployment Frequency as a Business Metric
How to explain to the CFO that "shipping code 5 times a day" is about reducing the feedback loop between a business request and a delivered insight.
 • Yordan Ivanov
Passing The Senior Data Engineer Interview: Build This Pipeline
How to control the whiteboard task, show senior judgment, and avoid the mistakes that disqualify strong candidates
 • Yordan Ivanov
The Missing Map to AI-Powered Apps for Data Engineers
AI engineering looks new until you lay out the moving parts and realize it runs on state, latency, and data integrity like everything else you’ve…
 • Yordan Ivanov
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Your First 60 Days as a Data Engineering Lead
Escape the hero trap an start building impact
 • Yordan Ivanov
The Certifications Scam
Why data engineers collect certificates and do you really need one?
 • Yordan Ivanov
Read The Manual Before Buying The Tool
How to spot hidden limits, ownership gaps, and operational risk before procurement gets involved
 • Yordan Ivanov
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This Engineer Teaches Their Audience How To Think The Right Way
Why judging yourself by results is a trap, and how to build design patterns for your own brain instead.
 • Yordan Ivanov and Michał Poczwardowski

Data Gibberish

Data Gibberish helps experienced data engineers and data leads handle stakeholder requests, scope pressure, and decision-making with scripts, checklists, and playbooks you can use immediately.
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