Between August 19, 2020, and October 17, 2020, I ran a survey to get more data for my latest book Data Teams. Overall, we had 86 respondents. This survey was designed to get information about how management uses data teams, the value they’re creating, and how...
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...
I’m thrilled to announce that Data Teams: A unified management model for successful data-focused teams is available for purchase! My goal is to drive a real increase in the percentage of successful big data projects. Data Teams represents years of work and...
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...
