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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

Media Query Source: Part 12 - Connected Futures (Cisco blog); 5 classic blunders of digital transformation

* Connected Futures (Cisco blog) * Classic digital transformation blunders * Only viewing success in light of original vision * Taking on too much at once! My responses ended up being included in an article at Connected Futures, Cisco's executive insights magazine (September 5, 2018), entitled "5 Classic Blunders of Digital

From the Trenches: Technology Radar Volume #17

Introduction The title of this post is influenced by a 2012 post of mine which went into detail discussing a suite of commercial products that I had used on a project at that time, with the tagline "from the trenches" to emphasize that my writing was from personal

Media Query Source: Part 11

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 8, 2018: Media: Why are microservices becoming so popular with large brands like Netflix? Are they the future of app building? Are smaller companies seeing the same benefits? Do microservices bring the same benefits to small scale projects with small

Media Query Source: Part 10

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2018: Media: What is likely to happen with open source in the coming years? This coming week we'll be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Open Source, which is officially celebrated on February 3rd. It has come a

New Book Review: "Spring Boot Messaging"

New book review for Spring Boot Messaging: Messaging APIs for Enterprise and Integration Solutions, by Felipe Gutierrez, Apress, 2017, reposted here: When I first ran across this text, I debated whether it would make sense to acquire a copy for a recent client project of mine. As a relatively early

New Book Review: "RabbitMQ in Depth"

New book review for RabbitMQ in Depth, by Gavin M. Roy, Manning Publications, 2018, reposted here: The bottom line: this book is one of the best organized, succinctly written technology texts I have ever run across, with a phenomenal mix of text, diagrams, and code. So if you are looking

What is Big Data? (November 6, 2014)

Quite recently, I overheard a project colleague of mine having a discussion with someone on the phone. Somewhat abruptly, he covered the mouthpiece of the phone and whispered a question to me: "Erik, are we doing big data on this project?" My short answer, without thinking too much

Media Query Source: Part 7

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 8, 2017: Media: How to Explain Microservices in Plain English. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How do you define microservices succinctly? Gfesser: A microservice can be described as an independently running application that is responsible