What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else.

8 · Erik Bernhardsson · July 23, 2021, 4:28 p.m.
This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are bad and too hard to use— Erik Bernhardsson (@fulhack) July 21, 2021 This seem to have resonated with a lot of people, but for whatever reason, it ended up being a lot more polarizing than I thought! There was a fair am...