Data Engineering Digest, December 2025 & Annual Recap
Hello Data Engineers,
Welcome to the end of year edition of the data engineering digest - a monthly newsletter containing updates, inspiration, and insights from the community. This edition contains a special end of year recap of highlights from the community. We’ll be back to our regular format in the new year.
Data Engineering 2025 Recap
Top 10 Articles This Year
We filtered through all of the top posts to bring you the best articles from 2025. Be sure to add these to your reading list!
Ask Me Anything Events (AMAs)
Most Viewed Post (with 1.9 Million Views)
Elon Musk’s Data Engineering expert’s “hard drive overheats” after processing 60k rows
Acknowledgements and Thank Yous
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You 🫵
And thank YOU for being here. There are countless members who make our community great through sharing high quality content, answering questions, and generally helping out however they can. You are appreciated.
2026 Predictions
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2026 is the year of the _____.
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