Jesse+ by | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog, Business |
By Jesse Anderson and Mikio Braun Organizations are gradually getting the message about the critical nature of data engineering. Data science teams are getting that message too. Sometimes, that message gets muddled, and data science teams think they just need to add a...
Jesse+ by | Jun 3, 2021 | Blog |
Confluent just filed their S1 to IPO. I worked with Confluent starting in March of 2015, and we eventually parted ways. At my company, we continue to work with streaming technologies, including Kafka. I want to share a different opinion on what the filing says, my...
Jesse+ by | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog |
Some of the most interesting consultations are when I help data science teams that don’t think they need data engineering. I’ve compiled a list of some of the more common reasons why data science teams believe they don’t need data engineering and why those reasons...
Jesse+ by | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
As a distributed systems person, I’m used to figuring out how to spread a problem out to the most number of computers possible. Spreading out a problem lets me leverage my resources far better and faster. However, we’re failing to apply this optimization to our own...
Jesse+ by | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog, Business, Magnum Opus |
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” ― Isaac Newton Data engineering is one of the disciplines where you just know a drop. Some companies are saying it’s easy, and you just need to know a drop. My experience in the field and teaching tells...
