Rishi Bytes Practical writing about data engineering, cloud platforms, Agentic AI, architecture, and engineering careers. https://rishibytes.com/ 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z Rishi Tamrakar https://rishibytes.com/ Cheap Tokens Won’t Make You a Better Engineer https://rishibytes.com/blog/cheap-tokens-wont-make-you-a-better-engineer/ 2026-07-10T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z AI usage may become cheaper or more expensive, but engineering value still comes from solving the right problem within real constraints. Why I’m Breaking the DRY Rule: The Case for Data Duplication https://rishibytes.com/blog/why-im-breaking-the-dry-rule/ 2026-03-30T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z Data duplication is not automatically technical debt. Sometimes separate copies are the clearest way to meet different latency, scale, and analytical requirements. I Stopped Googling. Is AI Search Actually Honest? https://rishibytes.com/blog/is-ai-search-actually-honest/ 2026-03-15T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z AI answers feel cleaner than search results, but recommendations can still be shaped by training data, commercial integrations, and advertising. I Thought My Data Engineering Career Was Over in 2017 https://rishibytes.com/blog/data-engineering-career-2017/ 2025-12-26T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z Being assigned to a legacy Informatica project felt like failure. It became the foundation for the engineering career I wanted. From Informatica to dbt: Journey to Modern, Maintainable Data Pipelines https://rishibytes.com/blog/from-informatica-to-dbt/ 2025-07-18T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z How dbt answered a question I first asked while building Informatica PowerCenter mappings: why can't data teams manage transformations as SQL and software? Should We Always Build Decoupled Systems? https://rishibytes.com/blog/should-we-always-build-decoupled-systems/ 2024-09-16T00:00:00Z 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z Kafka, Pub/Sub, and queues are powerful, but asynchronous messaging is not the default answer for every interaction. Start with the business requirement.