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...
During my interviews for another case study in Data Teams, I was introduced to a concept I teach but hadn’t heard so brilliantly stated. The case study was with Justin Coffey and François Jehl, who were both at Criteo. Justin introduced this concept of keeping...
By Jesse Anderson and Mikio Braun Organizations are gradually getting the message about the critical nature of data engineering. Data science teams are getting that message too. Sometimes, that message gets muddled, and data science teams think they just need to add a...
Confluent just filed their S1 to IPO. I worked with Confluent starting in March of 2015, and we eventually parted ways. At my company, we continue to work with streaming technologies, including Kafka. I want to share a different opinion on what the filing says, my...
Some of the most interesting consultations are when I help data science teams that don’t think they need data engineering. I’ve compiled a list of some of the more common reasons why data science teams believe they don’t need data engineering and why...
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...
