Tired of Passing 10 Parameters to Your Functions: Go For The ApplicationContext Pattern for Data Pipelines
Your pipeline functions don’t need tons of parameters. Here’s a simple pattern to clean up your Databricks and Snowflake code.
Clean-Code
Why I'm Writing About Clean Python and AI-Assisted Coding
I spent 10 years as a SAP BODS consultant. It taught me a lot — especially about the frustration of working inside a black box. When something broke, I often couldn’t dig into the internals. I had to work around limitations rather than through them. The tool did the job, but I never felt like I truly understood my own pipelines end to end. And let’s just say that debugging a data flow through a GUI with cryptic error messages at 2am — while the documentation loads slower than your will to live — builds character. A lot of character. If you’ve ever opened a support ticket hoping for answers and received “working as designed,” you know exactly what I mean. ...