June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 19m
English
Content preview from 97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know
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Chapter 72. The Holy War Between Proprietary and Open Source Is a Lie
Paige Roberts
You don’t have to choose sides in some imaginary holy war. Open source software can be great, so can proprietary software. The one metric to rule them all is: use what works best.
A lot of data engineers and architects feel like they have to pick a side between open source software and proprietary. You don’t. Seriously, there are no sides.
The same engineers who write proprietary code often also write open source code. But which side of the line is open core software on? What about proprietary software with open source components, or proprietary software that allows you to embed or integrate open source components? Why the heck are you worrying about this? The only thing a data engineer should worry about is how to get a project into production most efficiently.
The main difference between an open source and a proprietary offering is that one was made by developers for developers, and the other was made by developers for customers. Customers tend to want greater ease of use and dependability. They’ll settle for less control if it means they can get jobs into production faster, won’t have to hire a specialist, and can rely on the solution. Developers want more power and control knobs. They’ll settle for less ease of use and dependability if it means they ...
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