9/22/2023
Some Thoughts on Technical Business Realities
I've been working at DuPont for 2 years now, delivering data products
that attempt to provide some insight/value for the logistics branches of the company.
I've also spent a bunch of time browsing/reading technical information like various
data engineering books, r/dataengineering and r/softwareengineering on Reddit, and just overall have been sort of thinking about the things people say and
do when it comes to building software.
I've found that there seems to be a real disconnect between the "idea" of what software should be and the technical requirements therein and the business requirements that drive development.
I have come to believe that the end product design for business requirements should be the most minimal and pragmatic design that solve those requirements. And honestly, much of the time, this might be
a non-technical solution. If the business currently has no good process for any type of data communication or capture, building