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RudderStack's free library of explainer articles on data engineering, data infrastructure and machine learning, covering topics such as generalization, deep learning and supplying customer data to LLM applications. RudderStack sells a customer data platform.
LinkedIn engineers describe migrating a high-volume event-ingestion pipeline, including gRPC adoption, asynchronous Kafka delivery, validation and production hardening.
A Snowflake Builders Blog post by Eylon Steiner on data governance once AI agents can run SQL, covering masking, access controls and related practices in Snowflake.
A free hybrid conference on open source analytics and AI, held online and in San Francisco, bringing together data engineers, analytics engineers, and open source maintainers for technical talks on the modern data stack.
A four-course specialization on ingesting, transforming, storing and serving data to stakeholders, taught on Coursera. Free to audit; a paid subscription adds graded assignments and a certificate.
Free virtual conference on 9 December 2026, 8:30am to 2:00pm Pacific, on running streaming data and AI agent systems in production. Sessions cover streaming plus SQL and agents on one platform, locking down agent access with an agentic data plane, streaming at scale, and open Q&A with the product and engineering teams. Speakers are engineers, architects, customers and industry experts.
Details: Worth a morning if you work with data pipelines and want to hear how agents are actually being governed in production rather than demoed. Two honest flags: it is the vendor's own event, so the answer to most architecture questions will be Redpanda, and registration asks for your job title, company and work email, and signs you up for their marketing email. Use a filterable address if that matters to you.
Current openings in data engineering, analytics and data science posted by Dataspace, a staffing firm that specialises in data roles.
From the site: Browse open data science contract jobs, including data science, engineering, and analytics roles at industry-leading companies nationwide.
Why I recommend it: A niche board rather than a big one. Worth a look precisely because far fewer people are applying through it than through the giant sites.
Free hands-on virtual workshop on data pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow, run alongside Astronomer's Orchestrate Everything conference.
Details: Data engineering hiring still rewards Airflow experience. A workshop project gives you something concrete to put on the resume.
Early-career Data & AI Engineering opportunity at Procter & Gamble for 2027 graduates. A path into applied data science, analytics, and machine learning inside a global consumer-goods company.
Twelve-month paid apprenticeships in Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and Cloud Engineering. Accenture has scaled apprenticeships into a large share of its entry-level hiring in North America.
In plain terms: This program provides paid, entry-level tech and business apprenticeships with mentorship for job seekers without a four-year degree. You can submit an application to gain hands-on training and work toward a full-time role.
Why I recommend it: Client-facing consulting experience is the differentiator here. It teaches you how to talk to business stakeholders, which pays off for the rest of your career.
