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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

New Book Review: "Version Control with Git (Second Edition)"

New book review for Version Control with Git (Second Edition), by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Solid discussion of Git for someone like me who has primarily been using CVS and SVN (Subversion) throughout their career, and has since started using Git. While I

New Book Review: "Building Microservices"

New book review for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: As explained in the preface to this book, "microservices" are small, autonomous services that work together, each of which is focused on doing one thing well. While the topic of

Personal Reading List: 2Q2015

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2015. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) AngularJS by Example, by Chandermani, Packt Publishing, 2015. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015. Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Training

Notes taken for posterity during two days of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training recently provided by Juniper Hill Associates at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Much like my notes for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training 3 years ago which you can find here and here, these notes

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development , by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003, reposted here: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane

Strange Loop 2014:Keynote: Our Shared Joy of Programming

Peabody Opera House September 19, 2014: 4:50 PM – 5:30 PM From the promotional materials: Our Shared Joy of Programming Have you ever had flying dreams? Or dreams that all of a sudden you finally understood it “all”? These feelings are echoed in the joy we experience in learning,

Strange Loop 2014:Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza

Peabody Opera House September 18, 2014: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM From the promotional materials: Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most

Strange Loop 2014:Sessions Planning

The following are the most probable and least probable sessions that I expect to attend during each time slot of the Strange Loop 2014 conference next week, although anything is possible, and I can be swayed. Thursday September 18 7:30am – 8:45am Registration 8:45am – 9:00am Welcome – Alex

Past Book Review (September 26, 2008): "DW2.0"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for DW2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), by William H. Inmon, Derek Strauss, and Genia Neushloss, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, reposted here: Awareness of this book arose following

Past Book Review (July 4, 2006): "Software Estimation"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices), by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2006, reposted here: McConnell immediately differentiates between software estimation as a science and software estimation as an art within the first pages of the introduction