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Product Reviews: Part 10 - My Amazon reviewer ranking continues to hover around #3000

My ranking at Amazon continues to hover around #3000 as the 733 reviews I've written reached a milestone of 3500 helpful votes yesterday, an average of 4.775 helpful votes per review. Since the milestone when my reviews reached 3000 helpful votes in August 2021, Amazon merchants have

Media Query Source: Part 40 - CIO (US digital magazine); 10 key roles for AI success

* CIO (US digital magazine) * 10 key roles every AI team needs * Data engineer role is foundational * Suitable data leads to trustworthiness My responses ended up being included in an article at CIO (June 7, 2022). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from

Community Comment: Part 19 - Firms have more choices than just buy vs build

* Firms have more choices than vendors admit * The "buy vs build" choice is nuanced * Commercial & open source fall on spectrum * Blanket $ statements cannot be made The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. CEO at ELT platform firm: Do you think your data team

Community Comment: Part 18 - Lines of code (LOC) is not a good productivity measure

* Lines of code (LOC) not good productivity measure * Preparation rewards !> participation rewards * Finish time matters for running race * End product matters for software The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Product Owner at Consultancy: “A developer should be writing at least as much in code

Community Post: Part 1 - My proposal to DB-Engines for inclusion of Databricks was successful!

* My open letter to DB-Engines * Gartner's "DBMS market share ranks" post * Databricks left out of DB-Engines ranking * My proposal to DB-Engines was successful Background for a community post I wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erikgfesser_gartner-databricks-database-activity-6925028958199570432-t5bW/ Gfesser: Success! About a week ago, I submitted the

Personal Reading List: 2Q2022

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2022. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon, Harper Business, 2012. Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box

Media Query Source: Part 39 - Enable Architect (US digital magazine); My career journey from software engineer to architect

* Enable Architect (US digital magazine) * My career journey from engineer to architect * "Architect" definition dependent on audience * Practical experience & flexibility bring value My full responses ended up being transformed into an article at Enable Architect (June 14, 2022), after working through several rounds of editing with the

Media Query Source: Part 38 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Low code: satisfying meal or junk food?

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Low code development platforms * Short-term benefits for the non-technical * Application lifespan often underestimated My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (May 10, 2022). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The query

New Book Review: "Hero on a Mission"

New book review for Hero on a MIssion: A Path to a Meaningful Life, by Donald Miller, HarperCollins Leadership, 2022: Copy provided by Amazon. Just after I had first started reading through this book, someone commented to me that they had also started reading another book, entitled "Man'

Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Enterprise Agile Strategist at Cloud Content Management Firm: Q: How do I get accurate estimates?