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Max Beauchemin

Max Beauchemin

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Maxime Beauchemin works as a Senior Software Engineer at Lyft where he develops open source products that reduce friction and help generate insights from data. He is the creator and a lead maintainer of Apache Airflow [incubating], a data pipeline workflow engine; and Apache Superset [incubating], a data visualization platform; and is recognized as a thought leader in the data engineering field. Before Lyft, Maxime worked at Airbnb on the "Analytics & Experimentation Products team". Previously, he worked at Facebook on computation frameworks powering engagement and growth analytics, on clickstream analytics at Yahoo!, and as a data warehouse architect at Ubisoft.

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Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing

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Batch data processing — historically known as ETL — is extremely challenging. It’s time-consuming, brittle, and often unrewarding. Not only that, it’s hard to operate, evolve, and troubleshoot.

In this post, we’ll explore how applying the functional programming paradigm to data engineering can bring a lot of clarity to the process. This post distills fragments of wisdom accumulated while working at Yahoo, Facebook, Airbnb and Lyft, with the perspective of well over a decade of data warehousing and data engineering experience.

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