Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

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Silent schema drift is a common source of failure. When fields change meaning without traceability, explanations become ...

The demand for data engineering solutions is growing significantly. According to a Market Data Forecast report, the global big data and data engineering market was valued at $75 billion in 2024 and is ...

A fundamental divide between data engineering and business analytics complicates how organizations operate in a rapidly evolving digital environment. Enterprises manage unprecedented volumes of ...

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