Jesse+ by | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog, Business, Magnum Opus |
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.†― Isaac Newton Data engineering is one of the disciplines where you just know a drop. Some companies are saying it’s easy, and you just need to know a drop. My experience in the field and teaching...
Jesse+ by | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog, Business |
Between August 19, 2020, and October 17, 2020, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams. Overall, we had 86 respondents. This survey was designed to get information about how management uses data teams, the value they’re creating, and how...
Jesse+ by | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Data teams require all of their parts to be complete and succeed. When one of the teams of a data team is missing, the other teams will suffer. Often, organizations or team members don’t understand what’s happening when a team is missing. They blame themselves or...
Jesse+ by | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard, Magnum Opus |
I’m thrilled to announce that Data Teams: A unified management model for successful data-focused teams is available for purchase! My goal is to drive a real increase in the percentage of successful big data projects. Data Teams represents years of work and...
Jesse+ by | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Kafka 2.0 added a new poll() method that takes a Duration as an argument. The previous poll() took a long as an argument. The differences between the two polls don’t stop there. You should know about the differences before porting your poll from a long to a...
Jesse+ by | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
In my last post, I gave some general suggestions on how analytics and data engineering teams should be dealing with COVID-19. Now, I want to give specific advice on how data engineering teams can reduce their cloud costs. Note: while this post focuses on cloud,...
