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Community Comment: Part 22 - The phrase "it depends" is still relevant!

* The phrase "it depends" still relevant * Decisional factors need to be accounted * Never bow to unjustified pressure * Your clients & customers will thank you The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. CEO at Consulting Firm: Software meetings best practices: ❌ Never say: Never. ✅ Always say:

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 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

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

Community Comment: Part 15

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6884136604764565505?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6884136604764565505%2C6884184734960775169%29 Director at Executive Search Firm: Do not hire an architect if you want them to be sat writing code all

Community Comment: Part 14

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871126959674400769?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6871126959674400769%2C6873206176721506304%29 Data Warehouse Architect & Developer at Healthcare Data Consultancy: I keep seeing this again and again: databases like Snowflake, Redshift,

Media Query Source: Part 37 The Data Chief (ThoughtSpot podcast)My biggest data priority this year (2022)Delivery of flagship data platformLargest dep

Note: unfortunately for the first time, I withdrew my response from consideration after discussing further with the Deloitte communications team. As I explained to folks at The Data Chief, while my response was generic, some uncertainty had subsequently been introduced as to whether the details I shared were permissible, and

Community Comment: Part 13

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6887723730819158016?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6887723730819158016%2C6889881950715199488%29 Programming Jokes / IT Humor & Memes Group: python or java ?? Gfesser: Just because both Java and Python are general purpose

Media Query Source: Part 34 MSDynamicsWorld (US digital magazine)Azure Data Box family of productsCounterpart to AWS Snow family of productsData ingre

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 27, 2022: Media: What are the biggest gaps in Data Box capabilities, if any? Gfesser: The Azure Data Box family of products is essentially used to get data into Azure, focusing on storage optimized hardware. In contrast, the AWS Snow