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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

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 9 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Non-RDBMS emerges as an analytics data choice

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Growing adoption of non-RDBMS for analytics * Further database product hybridization likely * Product selection due diligence important My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (October 31, 2017). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited

New Book Review: "Next Generation Databases"

New book review for Next Generation Databases: NoSQL, NewSQL, and Big Data, by Guy Harrison, Apress, 2015, reposted here: Since it had been about 4 years since I read a database survey book entitled "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement"

Media Query Source: Part 4

The responses I provided to a media outlet on May 3, 2017: Media: The place of databases in DevOps. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How often is the database being changed? Gfesser: The frequency of database changes will vary. As a general rule, there will

New Book Review: "Migrating to Microservice Databases"

New book review for Migrating to Microservice Databases: From Relational Monolith to Distributed Data, by Edson Yanaga, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: This book addresses a much-needed topic in microservices architecture: the database in the context of microservices. However, after reading several other books on microservices architecture, I found

New Book Review: "Introduction to Apache Flink"

New book review for Introduction to Apache Flink: Stream Processing for Real Time and Beyond, by Ellen Friedman and Kostas Tzoumas, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Good effort on the first (and currently only) book available on Apache Flink. As the authors comment in the introductory pages, the purpose

Chicago Apache Flink Meetup (CHAF):Hands-on Apache Flink Workshop (February 21, 2017)

From the promotional materials: In this workshop, we will go over a hands on tutorial highlighting building a Flink stream processor. The workshop will show you how to 1. Set up a stream consisting of Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus tracker data 2. Use different types of windowing techniques to