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		CyberDildonics 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data engineering and software engineering are conv... Why would a software engineer not be able to do both roles?

omgwtfbyobbq 3 months ago [–]

They can, but it takes time away from software engineering.

Along the same reason, that's why there are DBAs, dev-ops engineers, etc...

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