Maria's journey in the data fields

Last week I have attended an Enterprise Data World summit. This is one of my favourite summits as they always have a broad choice of sessions on any level for data professionals. Unfortunately, due to work arrangements, I was only present on the second day of the summit. The first session's original title was “Accelerating Data Management with DataOps” but the speaker didn’t show up. Summit organizers have asked another speaker, Doug Needham from DataOps.live, to fill up and he made up a replacement session just in a few minutes before the session was supposed to start. That takes a lot of knowledge of the topic and courage to stand up for the disappointed audience that was expecting someone else. Doug is a senior data solutions architect and was doing Data Ops long before the term was invented. This amazing hour was full of exciting aspects of data operations, examples from Doug’s own rich experience and an overview of the Data Ops product his company is working on. I have very m