From the course: Problem-Solving Strategies for Data Engineers
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Having a good documentation
From the course: Problem-Solving Strategies for Data Engineers
Having a good documentation
- [Instructor] Let's talk about documentation. The biggest problem with documentation usually is there is no documentation. I know documentation is sometimes quite annoying. Documentation takes time. Very often we don't have time for the documentation, but nevertheless, having no documentation is absolutely terrible. Most of the time, the problem with having no documentation is you need to maintain a piece of pipeline and you have no idea what it does, what each part does, what part of source code does. Super difficult. Or the other way that something needs improvement, not that it's not broken, but it needs improvement, and you need to go in and improve a piece of the pipeline and that piece isn't documented and you need to spend hours going through everything figuring out what it is, how it works, and that's super terrible and you don't want to do that. And you also don't want to have others do that. So these…