Jesse+ by | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Note: This post was guest written by John Desmond. My preparation for the course began before I knew about the course, and before I realized that I wanted to specialize in data engineering. When I decided I wanted to learn programming, I hadn’t quite decided if I...
Jesse+ by | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
It’s been a tumultuous past few weeks for big data vendors. First MapR is having problems (their update). Now, Cloudera is having problems. As of today, Cloudera closed at $5.21 (June 6, 2019). To put that in perspective, at its last valuation, Confluent was valued at...
Jesse+ by | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
It’s been fascinating watching the operational world change over the years. We started out by racking and stacking anything that needed to run. We wisened up a bit and started using virtual machines. More recently we’ve moved into containerization. Surely, that’s the...
Jesse+ by | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Business |
When I start working with a team, one the first questions I ask is “how much time do you spend creating new features versus making sure those new features don’t break something else.” Put a different way, how much time is your development team spending creating new...
Jesse+ by | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog, Business |
As companies start to look at rolling out real-time messaging systems, it’s important to look at the overall hardware costs. With some forward planning, companies can save as much as 85% on their overall storage costs. Before we start getting into the cost...
Jesse+ by | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog, Business |
There are diverse viewpoints on open source and its usage as a service. I’ve attempted to give a synopsis of the issues and some background – but that’s only my viewpoint. I’m bringing in other people to give their diverse viewpoints to give a more well-rounded...
