Enjoy time at work🤙

Are you planning to move from analyst role to the data engineering role and don't know where to start? I bet for any questions out there, there is ideal book that exists and this question is not an exception.

The "The Missing  README" is the best book for anyone looking for the foundational software engineering knowledge. Even you don't plan to work as a data engineer right now, you can still learn basic concepts and communicate effectively with backend engineer team.

Personally, this book has helped me tremendously in my career and I highly recommend it to anyone who are lacking Computer Science degree 🤗

Book link: https://lnkd.in/dQxNe3dm

Club 500 is started https://surfalytics.com/pages/club500/

Hello, I’ve started Discord for Surfalytics. Best way for collaboration, resume and job hunting progress updates and share your success with rest! Join us here: https://discord.gg/yEQkFerr

The success of your career often depends on your impact. While you might find yourself building numerous things—such as reports, pipelines, ingesting additional data sources, merging pull requests, or producing many lines of code—you may realize that these activities alone aren't propelling your career forward.

You're producing outputs and gauging your work by these outputs. However, output isn't synonymous with outcome. Your outputs might have limited business value and negligible impact. In essence, you're caught in the "building trap."

This is why I highly recommend the book "Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value." This book will introduce you to the fundamentals of product management and the outcome-driven approach. It aims to help you avoid the building trap, create value for businesses, and focus on meaningful impacts that can genuinely advance your career.

P.S. Naturally, this will shine brightest when paired with a team and leadership that truly have their eyes on outcomes and can deftly distinguish between "output" and "outcome." Wouldn't that be refreshing?

Link to book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42611483-escaping-the-build-trap

3rd year in a row I will run the Cloud Computing course in the University of Victoria starting Jan 9 till Feb 15. https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/data-computing-and-technology/courses/cloud-computing-for-business/

#Surfalytics launched premium subscription with the cost of Netflix where you will get access to the study materials, almost support in your career grow , helping with job searching and many other sweet perks. But the most important, every month we will launch two dedicated project that will upskill you and add portfolio. One for entry level folks on #BusinessIntelligence and Data Analytics track and another one more advance on #DataEngineering track.

Early price 20CAD per month is available.

MicroStrategy is not only known for investing in Bitcoin, but they also collaborated with the University of Colorado Boulder to create one of the best foundational programs on Coursera: "Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization".

Unfortunately, this program has few buzzwords and makes no mention of the #moderndatastack 🤣
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-warehousing
(note you can also learn this for free by choosing Audit for each of the course in the program's or request financial aid from coursera)

Tomorrow will try to run first stream in Discord at 2pm PST

Idea of battling with SQL in 3 weeks

I found random personal website built on top of GitHub Pages (for free). This would be great project for one of the future Surfalytics projects. Even surfalytics website itself is built on top of GitHub pages.

For premium Surfalytics users I’ve created 2 peojects for November:
- Building end-to-end Power BI dashboard with Microsoft Fabric
- Deploying Azure Databricks in a Virtual Network with No Public IP

These projects are dedicated to basics of Azure cloud computing, Azure Analytics services, security and network configurations. The result will go into the portolio and will be documented as blog in the students personal medium.

You can do these projects on your own or can join privat discord channels where we discuss them, learning and doing togehter. It is part of Surfalytics monthly subscription (20CAD per month) that will help me to develop core free video trainings.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/elevate-your-analytics-game-key-terms-explained-dmitry-anoshin-n79yf

PS don't forget to lake/share:)