Data strikes me a a discipline that deserves a bit more love.
if I had to condense how to make engineers productive into one thing, it would be something like: make the feedback loops fast.
Data teams often need to change infrastructure a lot more often (sometimes every new cron job needs a Terraform update), have very “bursty” needs for compute power, and needs a much wider range of hardware (GPUs! high memory jobs! etc). Not to mention the “liberal” (ehum) standards for packaging cutting edge ML code .
UN should impose sanctions on anyone complaining that “data teams need to adopt software engineering practices”. The needs are different!