A backend engineer asked me why I recommend Fundamentals of Data Engineering for backend folks.
Because most backend engineers accidentally become data engineers the moment their API hits production.
Backend = owns writes.
Data Engineering = owns reads.
But both eat the same consequences when the data sucks.
If you learn Data Engineering fundamentals, you level up faster because you stop treating data as “someone else’s problem.”
You get better at:
- Designing schemas that won’t break downstream
- Shipping clean, traceable events (no dual-write disasters)
- Thinking in batch vs. streaming trade-offs
- Debugging data issues faster than “blame analytics”
- Building APIs that scale with actual usage patterns
Backend without data fundamentals = “the feature works”
Backend with data fundamentals = “the business trusts what you build”
The short answer:
Most backend engineers only understand half the system.
This book helps you finally see the whole thing.
here with Day 6/45 🙂↕️✋🏻 #SDESheetChallenge
It was really fun solving the questions today!!!
I remember doing DP for the first time for my sem exams from Abdul Bari sir, it amused me right away. And ofc @striver_79 bhaiya is one of the best teachers!! ❤️
@takeUforward_
🗓️ Day 3 – #SDESheetChallenge
Today's problems are here | Topic - Arrays Part II
Rotate matrix by 90° ✅
Merge overlapping subintervals ✅
Merge two sorted arryas without space ✅
Yaya done for the day !
@striver_79
Day 4/45 of #SDESheetChallenge on @takeUforward_
✅3 problems from Arrays II
1. duplicate nums
2. repeating and missing nums
3. inversions in arr- used merge sort
Am I the only one who kinds still takes a sec to recollect sorting techniques and how they're implemented?😭
Morning y'all its day 04 of reset szn,
woke up a lil late, skipped the walk for the morning
gonna focus more on work and study today, feels like "summertime saddness" for some reason
Day 03/45 of #SDESheetChallenge on @takeUforward_
moved onto some more problems on Arrays, honestly felt like a good recap
1. rotate matrix by 90 degrees ✅
2. merge overlapping subintervals✅
3.merge 2 sorted arrays wo space ✅
thanks bhaiya @striver_79 😌
#DSA#consistency
Today's logs -
- Office work
- DSA 2 questions ( POTD and 1 similar ques)
- Started Rabbit MQ - have a task related to this
- System Design started - DNS , scaling , types , microservices architecture
Morning y'all ☀️☀️,
day 03 of my reset szn hell yeah
woke up fairly early arpund 5 30ish am and went for a lil walk
Strava is keeping me going frfr! 🗣💪🏻
Drop your daily goal and habits, lemme inculcate a few more fas fas 🤓
All the final year or third year students, where and how to you make your one pager resumes from?
any "not so talked about" rules and mistakes to avoid while making first official one pager resume?
please help :)
Okay, so I've decided that after my end-sem exams, I'll start learning from this GenAI playlist. Do you guys have any recommendations for other resources or anything else that could help? Right now, this playlist is the only resource I have for learning GenAI-related topics.
Thanks in advance!
day 02 of #SDESheetChallenge
with @takeUforward_@striver_79
did 3 more problems on arrays, solved the same on Leetcode as well
1. Kadane's Algo
2. Sorting an array with 0s,1s and 2s
3. Stock buy and sell
studying / working after sem exams feels different, yet humbling
day 02 of #SDESheetChallenge
with @takeUforward_@striver_79
did 3 more problems on arrays, solved the same on Leetcode as well
1. Kadane's Algo
2. Sorting an array with 0s,1s and 2s
3. Stock buy and sell
studying / working after sem exams feels different, yet humbling
June 1 → 30
I'm starting a 30-day build-in-public challenge.
Every night, I'll document what I learned, built, and improved in tech & preparing for internships.
I'll also track my X growth daily.
If this reaches you, follow along
Lets see what 30 days of consistency can do📈