Jesse+ by | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
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...
Jesse+ by | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
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...
Jesse+ by | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
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...
Jesse+ by | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
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.
Jesse+ by | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Magnum Opus |
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...
Jesse+ by | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Business, Magnum Opus |
“Is my developer team ready for big data?” This is the most common question I’m asked by business leaders. Executives realize that big data projects can build their enterprise, but aren’t sure if their current development teams have the skills to actually create the...
