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...
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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...
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,...
Big Data and analytics are going to change in this COVID-19 era. I want to share with everyone the same messages that I’m giving my own clients. I’m hoping that this post will help those data teams that aren’t living up to their potential to start...
