The Rise of the Data Engineer

This post is from Maxime, the creator of Airbnb's Airflow framework for distributed acyclic graph (DAG) computation.

> Like data scientists, data engineers write code, are highly analytical and are interested in data visualization. Unlike data scientists, and inspired by our more mature parent the software engineer, data engineers build tools, infrastructure, frameworks and services. In fact, it’s arguable that data engineers are much closer to a software engineer than they are to a data scientist.

The way that data engineering is emerging as a role just like data scientists did, I think we'll soon see a split between traditional software engineers and data engineers.