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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

Media Query Source: Part 33 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Hadoop vs Spark: An an-depth big data framework comparison

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Apache Hadoop & Apache Spark * Overlap can exist between installations * Performance & use cases My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (May 7, 2021). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The

Media Query Source: Part 32 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Do you need a data warehouse for business intelligence?

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Business intelligence & data warehouses * Usage of public cloud versus on premises * Cost is only one factor to consider My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (February 12, 2021) entitled "Do you need a data warehouse for business intelligence?". Above

Community Comment: Part 7

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6739765048434135041?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6739765048434135041%2C6746484892428754944%29 Managing Director at Educational Institution: Companies are trying to make the decision between building their next-generation pub/sub systems on

Mentoring a Data Engineering Team while Running

A top 10 (US) grocer client contacted SPR to help them with their data lake. While we typically implement such solutions from scratch for our clients, the non-US division of this client had already put a solution in place, and the US division with which we worked was dependent on

New Book Review: "The Software Architect Elevator"

New book review for The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise, by Gregor Hohpe, O'Reilly, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. While the title of this book makes use of the term "software architect", connotations will likely arise

Community Comment: Part 4

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6727853891293089793?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6727853891293089793%2C6733693477084835840%29 Head of Artificial Intelligence at German consulting firm: This is how we have been building streaming data platforms five years

Community Comment: Part 2

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread on September 21, 2020: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6712112282559758336?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A6712112282559758336%2C6712156655460601856%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A6712112282559758336%2C6713928878362025984%29 Director of Data Analytics and Application

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 2

This article is the second in a multi-part case study series discussing the data platform my team and I built on AWS for the CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy. As explained in the first part, one goal for this platform was to centralize data assets and data analysis across

Media Query Source: Part 28 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Event streaming technologies a remedy for big data's onslaught

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Data streaming hurdles & best practices * Concepts challenging for traditional data pros * Greenfield use cases relatively less complex My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 25, 2020). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image