Software Engineers frequently engage themself into new learning paths. We keep learning skills related to our field such as programming languages; libraries or even how new data systems work. This idea is one of the 4 company values of @PubSapientEng, and they named it: Sharing Knowledge. Why “sharing”? Besides the idea to keep up with tech, it’s a good way to extends your skills and get new perspectives on the job you do every day. When structuring what you have learnt, enough to share it (e.g. a blog post, a tech conferences, podcast), you will consolidate your new skills and confront your understanding to others. This is mainly why, in early 2017, I’ve started to dig in what is Apache Kudu. At that time, I was focused on NoSQL technologies, Hadoop platforms and huge batch ingestions.

At the same time, I was preparing my very first technical talk. Can you guess the title of the presentation?? Exactly: Apache Kudu: the new big data antelope. Recycling is also an essential rule in this Sharing Knowledge thing. Not everyone consumes content the same way, but by switching format for the same subject, you will talk to a bigger audience and develop more skills.

For consulting companies, it is essential. It solves two significant problems:

• They need extra motivation to keep their teams learning
• They need the people outside to know they exist and they are interested in cool stuff

That’s why Sharing Knowledge is a win-win.