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Media Query Source: Part 27

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 25, 2020: Media: The current state of Hadoop. Is it dead? Has its death been greatly exaggerated? Is it just for enterprises? How significant were/are Cloudera's 2019 stock woes? Where does Hadoop fit into the future of

Media Query Source: Part 26

The responses I provided to a media outlet on July 7, 2020: Media: Is the pace of data and database movement to the cloud accelerating? Gfesser: Firms are increasingly leveraging the cloud to both host and process data, using both managed and containerized services. Decreased costs are driving much of

Media Query Source: Part 25 - Unite.AI (US digital magazine); Erik interviewed by Unite.AI

* Unite.AI (US digital magazine) * Q&A with CEO of Unite.AI * My career in software engineering & data * Tooling has converged between these spaces My responses ended up being included in the Interview Series at Unite.AI (April 21, 2020), a San Francisco based media firm "designed

New Book Review: Disruptive Analytics

New book review for Disruptive Analytics: Charting Your Strategy for Next-Generation Business Analytics, by Thomas W. Dinsmore, Apress, 2016: The author mentions at the outset that analytics industry leaders have been struggling, for reasons apparently not associated with product quality, but with disruption. Powerful forces are rearranging the industry: rapidly

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 1

The CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy contacted SPR to build out a data platform. While the core platform was to be built by the corporate IT organization run by the CIO, the goal was that this platform would be used by other organizations outside corporate IT as well to

Media Query Source: Part 24

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2020: Media: We hear a lot about data transformation these days and most companies are going through some stage of data transformation. Since data tends to be the domain of the IT group, it can be easy to assume

Media Query Source: Part 22 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); AWS data lake & data warehouse options for the cloud

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * AWS data lake & data warehouse options * Lake Formation, Glue & Redshift (Spectrum) * Use cases should drive product adoption My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 14, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above

Media Query Source: Part 21

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 4, 2019: Media: Technical debt is the added cost that's incurred when software is developed quickly with little or no regard to quality and must be reworked to reach its intended objectives. Looking for experts who can answer

New Book Review: Evolving Data Infrastructure

New book review for Evolving Data Infrastructure: Tools and Best Practices for Advanced Analytics and AI, by Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan, O'Reilly, 2019: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This text is all about O'Reilly's investigation into understanding how firms are making use

Media Query Source: Part 18

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 30, 2019: Media: Hadoop hasn't lived up to its early promise, and the fire sale of MapR to HPE earlier this month is the latest sign of that. What's next, then, for big data? Can Hadoop