Jesse+ by | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Million Monkeys |
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...
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...
Jesse+ by | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
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...
Jesse+ by | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
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...
Jesse+ by | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
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...
Jesse+ by | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
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,...
