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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

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

New Book Review: "Burn-In"

New book review for Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, by P. W. Singer and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, reposted here: Promotional pre-publication advance reading copy provided by Amazon. The back cover of this novel provides the following synopsis: "America is on the brink 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

New Book Review: "Julia for Beginners"

New book review for Tanmay Teaches Julia for Beginners: A Springboard to Machine Learning for All Ages, by Tanmay Bakshi, McGraw-Hill, 2019, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. As the author mentions in the preface to this book, the content he provides here is intended to work towards his goal

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