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...
Update: Confluent has renamed KSQL to ksqlDB It’s that Kafka Summit time of year again. There are lots of announcements. Some are good and some you have to sift through in order to figure out what’s the best for you and your organization. I’ll...
It’s been a tumultuous past few weeks for big data vendors. First MapR is having problems (their update). Now, Cloudera is having problems. As of today, Cloudera closed at $5.21 (June 6, 2019). To put that in perspective, at its last valuation, Confluent was...
It’s been fascinating watching the operational world change over the years. We started out by racking and stacking anything that needed to run. We wisened up a bit and started using virtual machines. More recently we’ve moved into containerization. Surely,...
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...
