There’s a sad thing that’s limiting our growth as programmers. We (programmers) don’t invest in ourselves like other professions. The business person will happily spend $3,000 to attend a class to improve a part of their business. The marketing...
After years of teaching Big Data, I’ve come up with the best explanation of why it isn’t easy, cheap, or quick. I wrote the in-depth piece published on...
Today’s blog post comes from a question from a subscriber on my mailing list. The question come from Alpesh D.: I have been getting your emails and they all seem to make sense. However, did I understand it correct that you believe all big data engineers need to...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Big Data Attacking a Big Data project with an all-or-nothing mindset leads to an absolute failure. I highly suggest breaking the overall project into more manageable phases. These phases are called crawl, walk, and run. Crawling In this phase,...
