The true question of life and Data Engineering is it not? Anyone who's worked in a Python world has seen, and been smitten by the seemingly simple question of … does something exist?
One would assume that such a simple thing couldn't possibly be that important, yet it's usually the things rattling and banging around the “simple” and fundamental level that end up being what bites your behind.
Today we explore this idea of something existing, in Python, and maybe we can sprinkle in some Rust to talk about alternatives to this problem.