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...

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...

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 one....

The Three Components of a Big Data Data Pipeline There's a common misconception in Big Data that you only need 1 technology to do everything that's necessary for a data pipeline - and that’s incorrect. Data Engineering != Spark The misconception that Apache Spark is...