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Jumpstarting an AWS Database Product Selection Effort (Published January 10, 2019)

A case study I wrote about a recent client project jumpstarting an AWS database product selection effort was recently published (January 10, 2019). While all database service offerings were considered, we ended up focusing on Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora using additional AWS services along the way to prove out

New Book Review: "High Performance Spark"

New book review for High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark, by Holden Karau and Rachel Warren, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: The authors state in their preface that "this book is intended for those who have some working knowledge of Spark, and may

New Book Review: "Spark: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for Spark: The Definitive Guide, by Bill Chambers and Matel Zaharla, O'Reilly 2018, reposted here: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Over the past few months, I've had the chance to work through three related books in the following order: "Spark: The

New Book Review: "Practical Hive"

New book review for Practical Hive: A Guide to Hadoop's Data Warehouse System, by Scott Shaw, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta, and David Kjerrumgaard, Apress, 2016: Shaw comments about the moment he experienced when he first copied a file into HDFS and created a Hive table on top

Media Query Source: Part 14

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 9, 2018: Media: Customer-centricity, customer journeys, data as an asset. In a lot of cases, it's just lip service. The real reason companies aren't keeping their promises traces back to the data they have and don&

New Book Review: "High Performance In-Memory Computing with Apache Ignite"

New book review for High Performance In-Memory Computing with Apache Ignite, by Shamim Bhuiyan, Michael Zheludkov, and Timur Isachenko, Lulu.com, 2017, reposted here: If you're looking for a book that covers Apache Ignite, as of mid-2018 this is still the only one. And while working through this

Media Query Source: Part 13 TechRepublic (US digital magazine)Open source hurdles that must be overcomeCommercial entities often behind open sourceDue

My responses ended up being included in an article at TechRepublic (August 16, 2018). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. Note that this article is seemingly no longer available at TechRepublic, but was archived by The Wayback Machine here.

New Book Review: "Designing Event-Driven Systems"

New book review for Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services with Apache Kafka, by Ben Stopford, O'Reilly, 2018: Sam Newman, the author of "Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems" (see my review), mentions Steve Yegge's "Platform Rant" in the foreward

New Book Review: "Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications"

New book review for Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers Now from Data Sets that Never End, by Dean Wampler PhD, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: A brief 40-page read that walks the reader through an introduction to the concepts of streaming, event logs and message queues,

New Book Review: "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"

New book review for Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: Kleppmann mentioned during his "Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza" talk at Strange Loop 2014 (see my notes) that he was