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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Past Book Review (July 6, 2007): "Balancing Agility and Discipline"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, 2003, reposted here: Great text. I really enjoyed reading this book by Boehm and Turner. Especially enjoyable was reading Grady

Counterpoint: "20 Questions to Detect Fake Data Scientists"

Update: this counterpoint was revisited for Erik on Software anniversary post #500 (January 28, 2023). Just recently, links to an essay entitled "20 Questions to Detect Fake Data Scientists" was making the rounds in some of the forums that I frequent. And following up the 20 questions suggested

New Book Review: "Building Real-Time Data Pipelines"

New book review for Building Real-Time Data Pipelines: Unifying Applications and Analytics with In-Memory Architectures, by Conor Doherty, Gary Orenstein, Steven Camina, and Kevin White, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: Most readers will already likely be aware of the benefits of soft real-time data, but the authors provide a

Personal Reading List: 1Q2016

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2016. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst, by Dean Abbott, Wiley, 2014. Copy provided by Amazon. Common Errors in Statistics and How to

New Book Review: "Time Series Databases"

New book review for Time Series Databases: New Ways to Store and Access Data, by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: This book specifically centers around time series databases (TSDB). Although collecting and analyzing time series data is not new, as the authors explain, the

New Book Review: "The Human Side of Postmortems"

New book review for The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases, by Dave Zwieback, O'Reilly, 2013, reposted here: The subject of postmortems should definitely get more attention in the workplace, although properly conducted agile retrospectives are more in vogue these days in the technology space

New Book Review: "JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition)"

New book review for JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition), by Aaron Frost, O'Reilly, 2015: Great report on JS.Next in a small, 34-page package provided free by O'Reilly. The author, a Google Developer Expert nominated by Google for his work on AngularJS

New Book Review: "Java: The Legend"

New book review for Java: The Legend – Past, Present, and Future, by Ben Evans, O'Reilly, 2015: As the publicity material for this short, 50-page programming report points out, the road from Java's first public 1.0 alpha back in 1995 to its present form has been

Personal Reading List: 4Q2015

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2015. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Java: The Legend – Past, Present, and

New Book Review: "PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition)"

New book review for PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition), by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, and Hannu Krosing, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: This book provides helpful material for those like myself who are relatively new to PostgreSQL, but not new to relational database products. While I had some earlier