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It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and ...

Data engineers used to operate mostly behind the scenes, moving digital information from one system to another so analysts and executives could make sense of it later. Now, as companies rely more ...