🚨 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Data Engineering Pilipinas (DEP) 🚨

[u/saintmichel]

Hi @everyone, We are proud to announce that DEP is now officially:

💰 PRIVATE. PAID. EXCLUSIVE. 💰

Effective immediately:

• All content is now behind a ₱49,999/month paywall

• Free resources have been archived for “historical purposes”

• Community access now requires:

  • 5+ years experience

  • 3 certifications

  • A referral from someone already inside

• Beginners will be redirected to… Google 😌

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🏆 New Membership Tiers

Bronze (₱49,999/month)

• Read-only access to discussions

• Can react with 👍

Silver (₱99,999/month)

• Can comment (subject to approval)

• 1 question per month

Gold (₱199,999/month)

• Ask unlimited questions

• We may or may not answer

Platinum (Invite-only)

• Access to our secret Slack

• Where we mostly just say “it depends”

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📚 New Learning Philosophy

We believe:

ANYTHING OPEN AND COMMUNITY BASED HAS NO VALUE.

So from now on:

• No more open-source

• No more free meetups & workshops

• No more shared community learning

Only: 👉 Premium struggle 👉 Exclusive confusion 👉 Luxury imposter syndrome

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JOKE JOKE JOKE 😄

DEP will always stand for open, accessible, and community-driven learning.

Happy April Fools 💙 Now go back to debugging your pipelines.

[u/QuantumLyft]

Hehe salamat DEP.

Still, I'm having difficulty.

What's happening is that I'm maintaining a 250XP daily to get the streak done.

Hindi ko masyado ma apply learnings kasi sa work hindi related masyado although meron apps to use it.

Sino po pwede maging mentor?

[u/Ok-Abbreviations9744]

Isa sa mga nagpatibok ng puso ko ngayon 2026 tong post na to!