See part 2 in the series. In telecommunications, there is the term “last mile”. It refers to getting the connection to customer. It’s the last mile between the company’s infrastructure and the customer’s location. We have similar issues...
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,...
