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Ten Years On – The Million Monkeys Project

Ten Years On – The Million Monkeys Project

Jesse+ by | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Million Monkeys | 1 comment

I want to tell you a story about how my life changed. It wasn’t a cult, new religion, or programming language. A million monkeys changed my life. Ten years ago, I randomly recreated every work of Shakespeare. It was quite a project on the technical, news, and...
It’s Time to Change How We Manage Data Teams

It’s Time to Change How We Manage Data Teams

Jesse+ by | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

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...
What It Looks Like When a Team Is Missing

What It Looks Like When a Team Is Missing

Jesse+ by | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

Data teams require all of their parts to be complete and succeed. When one of the teams of a data team is missing, the other teams will suffer. Often, organizations or team members don’t understand what’s happening when a team is missing. They blame...
Announcement: Data Teams Is Out!

Announcement: Data Teams Is Out!

Jesse+ by | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

I’m thrilled to announce that Data Teams: A unified management model for successful data-focused teams is available for purchase! My goal is to drive a real increase in the percentage of successful big data projects. Data Teams represents years of work and...
Kafka’s Got a Brand-New Poll

Kafka’s Got a Brand-New Poll

Jesse+ by | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

Kafka 2.0 added a new poll() method that takes a Duration as an argument. The previous poll() took a long as an argument. The differences between the two polls don’t stop there. You should know about the differences before porting your poll from a long to a...
Saving Money on Data Engineering in the Cloud

Saving Money on Data Engineering in the Cloud

Jesse+ by | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

In my last post, I gave some general suggestions on how analytics and data engineering teams should be dealing with COVID-19. Now, I want to give specific advice on how data engineering teams can reduce their cloud costs. Note: while this post focuses on cloud,...
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