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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Community Comment: Part 3

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6729270967148810240?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6729270967148810240%2C6733315058924867584%29 Global Head of Innovative Data Science at Bayer: Yesterday, I published my vlog session, where I also discussed the contraposition

Personal Reading List: 4Q2020

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2020. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You, by Scott E. Page, Basic Books, 2018. The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the

Community Comment: Part 2

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread on September 21, 2020: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6712112282559758336?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A6712112282559758336%2C6712156655460601856%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A6712112282559758336%2C6713928878362025984%29 Director of Data Analytics and Application

Community Comment: Part 1

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread on October 13, 2020: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6721405361934479360?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6721405361934479360%2C6721451805441622016%29 Software Engineer at Facebook: A lot of developers I talk to have trouble understanding database transactions

Media Query Source: Part 30 - DZone (US digital magazine); Executive insights on the state of databases

* DZone (US digital magazine) * Database effectiveness & the future of databases * Last couple years have experienced changing database landscape * One of 19 contributors to 9 key findings My responses ended up being included in a publication at DZone (July 9, 2019) for an article entitled "Executive Insights on the

Media Query Source: Part 29 - CMSWire (US digital magazine); Change management for digital transformation

* CMSWire (US digital magazine) * Digital transformation change management * "Digital transformation" needs to be defined * Planning essential, but plans should be agile My responses ended up being included in an article at CMSWire (May 11, 2018) entitled "Change Management for Digital Transformation". Above image from cited article.

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 2

This article is the second in a multi-part case study series discussing the data platform my team and I built on AWS for the CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy. As explained in the first part, one goal for this platform was to centralize data assets and data analysis across

Media Query Source: Part 28 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Event streaming technologies a remedy for big data's onslaught

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Data streaming hurdles & best practices * Concepts challenging for traditional data pros * Greenfield use cases relatively less complex My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 25, 2020). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image

Media Query Source: Part 27

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 25, 2020: Media: The current state of Hadoop. Is it dead? Has its death been greatly exaggerated? Is it just for enterprises? How significant were/are Cloudera's 2019 stock woes? Where does Hadoop fit into the future of

New Book Review: "Burn-In"

New book review for Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, by P. W. Singer and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, reposted here: Promotional pre-publication advance reading copy provided by Amazon. The back cover of this novel provides the following synopsis: "America is on the brink of