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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Google Phone Process Improvement

Last weekend, I spent some time at the Apple store in nearby Oak Brook. Several customers around the table at which I was standing (I was not a customer) were getting help with various iPad and iPhone issues, with one customer very openly upset that he had been asked by

Personal Reading List: 4Q2017

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2017. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers Now from Data Sets that Never End, by Dean Wampler PhD, O'Reilly, 2016. Copy provided by O&

Media Query Source: Part 8 - CIO (US digital magazine); When to kill (and when to recover) a failed project

* CIO (US digital magazine) * Decision making for failing projects * Failure likely unless changes made * Failure not necessarily negative in itself My responses ended up being included in an article at CIO magazine (September 14, 2017). Extent of quote highlighted in orange. Above image from cited article. The responses I provided

Media Query Source: Part 7

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 8, 2017: Media: How to Explain Microservices in Plain English. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How do you define microservices succinctly? Gfesser: A microservice can be described as an independently running application that is responsible

New Book Review: "Pricing Done Right"

New book review for Pricing Done Right: The Pricing Framework Proven Successful by the World's Most Profitable Companies, by Tim J. Smith, Wiley (Bloomberg Press), 2016, reposted here: As the author (founder and CEO of Wiglaf Pricing) mentions at the outset, every offering of a given firm and

New Book Review: "Next Generation Databases"

New book review for Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL, and Big Data, by Guy Harrison, Apress, 2015, reposted here: Since it had been about 4 years since I read a database survey book entitled "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement"

New Book Review: "Microservices vs. Monoliths"

New book review for Microservices vs. Monoliths: The Reality Beyond the Hype, by Chris Richardson, Dan Haywood, Mike Gehard, Matt McLarty, Mark Little, and Adrian Cockcroft, C4Media (Publisher of InfoQ.com), 2017, reposted here: This book brings together several previously published articles, blog posts, and presentations by individuals who have

Personal Reading List: 3Q2017

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2017. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers Now from Data Sets that Never End, by Dean Wampler PhD, O'Reilly, 2016. Copy provided by O&

New Book Review: "Spring Microservices"

New book review for Spring Microservices, by Rajesh RV, Packt Publishing, 2016, reposted here: The mix of theory and practice that this book provides is among the best I have ever run across, although those looking to potentially work through this book should be aware that a number of issues

Ubuntu on Windows: Part 2

About 3 months ago, I posted about my move to Windows 10 with the new laptop I received (Dell 5510 32GB RAM), configuring it for dual boot mode with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after contemplating installation of Cygwin on another machine yet again, prior to my recollection of a Microsoft