You might have seen some posts or tweets about Amazon using open source technology and creating managed services with them. You may not understand the reasons why people are upset with this. Let me explain as neutrally as possible the issues and background...
At DataEngConf Barcelona, I premiered a new talk about the importance of creating a data engineering culture. I share what a data engineering culture is and what management needs to do to be successful with Big Data. You can download the slides from the talk here and...
There is a common misunderstanding in data engineering that you can do everything you need to create a Big Data data pipeline with SQL. This notion is being promoted by some vendors and companies. They’re wrong and you can’t do all of your data engineering...
Cloudera has merged with/purchased Hortonworks. As a former Clouderan, it’s interesting to see this move on several levels. I’m going to share my insights from the outside as a former insider. Full Disclosure: Although I’m former Cloudera, I...
A common use case for using Kafka and Pulsar is to create work queues. The two technologies offer different implementations for accomplishing this use case. I’ll discuss the ways of implementing work queues in Kafka and Pulsar as well as the relative strengths...
