Between January 24, 2023, and February 28, 2023, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams, and to update my previous survey from late 2020. Overall, we had 81 respondents. This survey was designed to get information about how management uses data...
In the beginning, there was Google. Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. They created MapReduce and GFS in 2004. They published the papers for them in the same year. Doug Cutting took those papers and...
I want to tell you a story about how my life changed. It wasn’t a cult, new religion, or programming language. A million monkeys changed my life. Ten years ago, I randomly recreated every work of Shakespeare. It was quite a project on the technical, news, and...
As a distributed systems person, I’m used to figuring out how to spread a problem out to the most number of computers possible. Spreading out a problem lets me leverage my resources far better and faster. However, we’re failing to apply this optimization...
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...
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...
