by Jesse Anderson | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
I had a conversation with another person in the Big Data field. We were discussing whether the Data Engineers would become a more common job title and migrate out of Silicon Valley. I told him yes. Big Data is downright complicated on many levels. There are too many... by Jesse Anderson | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
A common question beginners ask about Hadoop are the technical skills needed to get started. This helps level set what skills you need before you embark on a big data journey. For developers and administrators, I divide up the skills as those that required and those... by Jesse Anderson | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Everyone’s Big Data journey starts somewhere. We’re often given stories of outright mastery, but I want to tell you how I got started with Big Data. Each of these stories about mastery forget or omit their humble beginnings. This is my story from my humble... by Jesse Anderson | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
For the past few months, I’ve been teaching at companies who are heavy users of Apache Storm. They’re also undertaking massive projects to move off of Storm. During that time, I’d say that something new was coming that might convince them to consider... by Jesse Anderson | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
The NFL ran a commercial a few years back. It featured various professional athletes from the NFL doing things you wouldn’t otherwise believe. One showed a quarterback shooting trap with his football instead of a shotgun. I’ve shot trap and it’s hard... by Jesse Anderson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
Person who chases two rabbits catches neither. – Confucius This applies really to learning. Learning two new and different technologies at the same time makes you catch neither. I’ve seen so many students trying to learn Big Data and a new programming...