Jesse+ by | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
There are two different types of data engineering. There are two different types of job types with the title data engineer. This is especially confusing to organizations and individuals who are starting out learning about data engineering. This confusion leads to the...
Jesse+ by | May 1, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
One of the benefits of teaching and consulting is the sheer number of organizations, teams, and people I get to work with. Since I deal with so many different groups, I can see patterns emerge much faster than others. One pattern I saw early on was real-time Big Data....
Jesse+ by | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Creating real-time data pipelines bring new challenges. There are new concepts and technologies that you’ll need to learn and understand. To help you understand the basic technologies you need in a real-time data pipeline, I break it down into 4 general types. These...
Jesse+ by | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
The move from batch to real-time Big Data represents change. It will entail using brand new technologies and concepts that you haven’t dealt with before. Batch Big Data Let’s start off by defining batch Big Data. For batch, all data must be there when the processing...
Jesse+ by | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
I wrote a post for the O’Reilly data blog going into my latest thoughts and views on data engineers versus data scientists. I continue on to talk about machine learning engineers.
Jesse+ by | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
There’s an elephant in the room with Big Data. If an organization tries to half-ass their way through a Big Data project, they’re going to fail (usually a 5-10% odds of success). Given this really low success rate, should you even do Big Data? When I worked at a Big...
