I wouldn't describe the role of a data scientist as voided and neither would I say that the underlying role is vacuous.
I think we are violently agreeing over the...

I am not convinced there is any such thing as a "Data Scientist" but I'm a firm believer in a "Data Science Team".

The role of the Data Science...

It's hell on earth Inheriting someone else's code, or more likely a team of people's code where the word "team" is stretching it a bit.
I think the visibility aspect...

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TradableQualityHypothesis.html

My experience is that people in IT abdicate their power and authority.  Many of the problems faced by IT are as a result of this.

Some of the things...

I think siloed thinking rather than over-specialization is the biggest threat.  As people climb the greasy pole the Dunning Kruger affect comes into play.  Expertise in one area...

Your system is only as good as the weakest part.

Security can be a blocker if applied blindly.  I'm finding that for the same reasons that tech debt is...

In a previous position infrastructure was spun up in the cloud with a guid password generated at the time of creation.  Once the configuration of the hardware was finished the account...

I've noticed a trend that occurs in new inventions.
Generation One: We try and use it in almost the same way as the predecessor
Generation Two: Some form of interim...

I was told a story about John Williams the guitar player being asked by a fan what his tips were for bridging.  He had to pause for a while before...

@jeff.  5 integers, datetime, 6 varchars, 2 of which were varchar(max) for the bcp version.

Similar for the JSON version but with some additional attributes and pointless nesting.  I...

If you have known columns represented in fixed width or delimited file there is so little processing to do that it is always going to be fast on any platform.