Jesse+ by | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
Update: Confluent has renamed KSQL to ksqlDB It’s that Kafka Summit time of year again. There are lots of announcements. Some are good and some you have to sift through in order to figure out what’s the best for you and your organization. I’ll briefly state my...
Jesse+ by | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Note: This post was guest written by John Desmond. My preparation for the course began before I knew about the course, and before I realized that I wanted to specialize in data engineering. When I decided I wanted to learn programming, I hadn’t quite decided if I...
Jesse+ by | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
It’s been a tumultuous past few weeks for big data vendors. First MapR is having problems (their update). Now, Cloudera is having problems. As of today, Cloudera closed at $5.21 (June 6, 2019). To put that in perspective, at its last valuation, Confluent was valued at...
Jesse+ by | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
It’s been fascinating watching the operational world change over the years. We started out by racking and stacking anything that needed to run. We wisened up a bit and started using virtual machines. More recently we’ve moved into containerization. Surely, that’s the...
Jesse+ by | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Business |
When I start working with a team, one the first questions I ask is “how much time do you spend creating new features versus making sure those new features don’t break something else.” Put a different way, how much time is your development team spending creating new...
