Big Data and Analytics in the COVID-19 Era

Jesse+ by | Mar 15, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

Big Data and analytics are going to change in this COVID-19 era. I want to share with everyone the same messages that I’m giving my own clients. I’m hoping that this post will help those data teams that aren’t living up to their potential to start creating real value....

Why I Recommend My Clients NOT Use KSQL and Kafka Streams

Jesse+ by | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 24 comments

Update: Confluent has renamed KSQL to ksqlDB It’s that Kafka Summit time of year again. There are lots of announcements. Some are good and some you have to sift through in order to figure out what’s the best for you and your organization. I’ll briefly state my...

What Is Big Data?

Jesse+ by | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

You’re starting to learn about Big Data or you’re wanting to learn more about Big Data. You start of by googling “what is Big Data?” You get an answer that doesn’t quite makes sense. The site talks about 3 Vs or sometimes they’re 4 Vs or even 5 Vs. These 3 Vs are...

Announcement: Data Engineering Teams Book

Jesse+ by | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

I’m really tired of seeing Big Data projects fail. They fail for both technical and managerial reasons. They all fail for similar reasons and that’s just sad because we can fix or prevent them. Gartner’s research shows that 85% of Big Data projects don’t even make it...

On complexity in big data

Jesse+ by | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

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 O’Reilly.

Announcement: Creating Big Data Solutions with Impala

Jesse+ by | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Magnum Opus | 0 comments

I am proud to announce that my latest screencast on Apache Impala called Creating Big Data Solutions with Impala was released on O’Reilly. This caps off a long relationship with Impala that started well before it was released publicly. My relationship with Impala...