What is Functional Data Engineering?

Last updated Sep 7, 2022 - Edit Source

• Data engineering

Functional Data Engineering brings clarity. When functions are “pure,” they do not have side effects. They can be written, tested, reasoned about, and debugged in isolation without understanding the external context or history of events surrounding their execution. Its  Functional Programming applied to the field of data engineering initiated by Maxime Beauchemin with  Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing.