One of the benefits of teaching and consulting is the sheer number of organizations, teams, and people I get to work with. Since I deal with so many different groups, I can see patterns emerge much faster than others. One pattern I saw early on was real-time Big Data....
Creating real-time data pipelines bring new challenges. There are new concepts and technologies that you’ll need to learn and understand. To help you understand the basic technologies you need in a real-time data pipeline, I break it down into 4 general types....
The move from batch to real-time Big Data represents change. It will entail using brand new technologies and concepts that you haven’t dealt with before. Batch Big Data Let’s start off by defining batch Big Data. For batch, all data must be there when the...
I wrote a post for the O’Reilly data blog going into my latest thoughts and views on data engineers versus data scientists. I continue on to talk about machine learning engineers. Can you switch careers to Big Data in 4 months or less?If you’re a Software...
There’s an elephant in the room with Big Data. If an organization tries to half-ass their way through a Big Data project, they’re going to fail (usually a 5-10% odds of success). Given this really low success rate, should you even do Big Data? When I...
As people start with Big Data, they go through the list of necessary skills. One of those crucial skills is to program. The question arises — how good does a person’s programming skills need to be? This is because programming skills are on a wide...
