Title: Dawn of another blog attempt
Date: 2023-05-10 20:00
Modified: 2023-05-10 20:00
Category: Data Engineering
Tags: data engineering, containers
Slug: how-i-built-the-damn-thing
Authors: Andrew Ridgway
Summary: Containers and How I take my learnings from home and apply them to work

So, once again I'm trying this blog thing out. For the first time though I'm not going to make it niche, or cultral, but just whatever I feel like writing about. For a number of years now my day job has been in and around the world of data. Starting out as a "Workforce Analyst" (read downloading csv's of payroll data and making excel report) and over time moving to my current role where I build and design systems for ingesting data from various systems systems to allow analysts and Data Scientists. My hobby however has been... well.. tech. These two things have over time merged into the weirdness that is my professional life and I'd like to take elements of this life and share my learnings.

The core reason for this is that I keep reading that its great to write. The other is I've decided that getting my thoughts into some form of order might be beneficial both to me and perhaps a wider audience. There are so many things I've attempted, succeeded and failed at, that, at the ver least, it will be worth getting them into a central repository of knowledge so that I, and maybe others, can share and use as time progresses. I also keep seeing on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com) a lot of refernences to the guys who've been writing blogs since the early days of the internet and I want to contribute my little pie to what I want the internet to be

So strap yourselves in as I take you on my data/self hosting journey, sprinkled with a little dev ops and data engineering to wet your appetite over the next little while. Sometimes I might even throw in some cultral or policitcal commentry just to keep things spicy!
