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r/dataengineering is a subreddit with 377k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has crazy activity.
News & discussion on Data Engineering topics, including but not limited to: data pipelines, databases, data formats, storage, data modeling, data governance, cleansing, NoSQL, distributed systems, streaming, batch, Big Data, and workflow engines.
Popular Themes in r/dataengineering
#1
Advice Requests
: "Leaving a Company Where I’m the Only One Who Knows How Things Work. Advice?"
14 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Anyone else feel stuck between “not technical enough” and “too experienced to start over”?"
7 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "What’s the actual cost-performance tradeoff between Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks?"
6 posts
#4
Ideas
: "An open-source alternative to Yahoo Finance's market data python APIs with higher reliability."
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Freelancing as a Data Engineer in 2025: What I’m Seeing on the Ground"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Built a whiteboard-style pipeline builder - it's now standard @ Instacart (Looking for contributors!)"
1 post
#7
News
: "Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty -- "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin""
1 post
Popular Topics in r/dataengineering
#1
Data Engineering
: "Data Engineering Job Market - What the Hell Happened?"
61 posts
#2
Dbt
: "Anyone else sticking with Power User for Dbt? The new "official" VS Code extension still feels like a buggy remake"
8 posts
#3
Ai
: "I’ve been getting so tired with all the fancy Ai words"
7 posts
#4
Snowflake
: "Are platforms like Databricks and Snowflake making data engineers less technical?"
7 posts
#5
Sql
: "Self-Service Data Platform via a Multi-Tenant Sql Gateway. Seeking a sanity check on a Kyuubi-based architecture."
6 posts
#6
Data Engineer
: "An attempt at vibe coding as a Data Engineer"
5 posts
#7
Aws
: "Anyone modernized their Aws data pipelines? What did you go for?"
5 posts
#8
Airflow
: "Airflow 2.0 to 3.0 migration"
4 posts
#9
Data Pipelines
: "Use of AI agents in Data Pipelines"
4 posts
#10
Data Modeling
: "Data Modeling Resources"
3 posts
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