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...
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,...
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...
As companies start to look at rolling out real-time messaging systems, it’s important to look at the overall hardware costs. With some forward planning, companies can save as much as 85% on their overall storage costs. Before we start getting into the cost...
There are diverse viewpoints on open source and its usage as a service. I’ve attempted to give a synopsis of the issues and some background – but that’s only my viewpoint. I’m bringing in other people to give their diverse viewpoints to give a...
The Three Components of a Big Data Data Pipeline There’s a common misconception in Big Data that you only need 1 technology to do everything that’s necessary for a data pipeline – and that’s incorrect. Data Engineering != Spark The...
