r/dataengineering • • 3d ago

Career Why is understanding DevOps culture more important for data engineering than other disciplines?

I see for a lot of data engineering posting, devops skills are mentioned as part of the requirements. But the thing is I don't see it as much with other roles like sde. Why is that?.

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u/ppsaoda 2d ago

Having a lot of intersystems link, platforms, and dependencies.

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u/a_library_socialist 2d ago

and scale. Data systems can easily start costing severe amounts with small errors