by Jesse Anderson | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Everyone’s Big Data journey starts somewhere. We’re often given stories of outright mastery, but I want to tell you how I got started with Big Data. Each of these stories about mastery forget or omit their humble beginnings. This is my story from my humble... by Jesse Anderson | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
For the past few months, I’ve been teaching at companies who are heavy users of Apache Storm. They’re also undertaking massive projects to move off of Storm. During that time, I’d say that something new was coming that might convince them to consider... by Jesse Anderson | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
The NFL ran a commercial a few years back. It featured various professional athletes from the NFL doing things you wouldn’t otherwise believe. One showed a quarterback shooting trap with his football instead of a shotgun. I’ve shot trap and it’s hard... by Jesse Anderson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
Person who chases two rabbits catches neither. – Confucius This applies really to learning. Learning two new and different technologies at the same time makes you catch neither. I’ve seen so many students trying to learn Big Data and a new programming... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
Let’s just say that Google Cloud’s SSH instructions aren’t the greatest. Here are the steps to SSH into your instance. It also assumes that you’ve installed the gcloud program. These instructions are for MacOSX and Linux. We start off by... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Magnum Opus |
I am proud to announce that my latest screencast on Apache Impala called Creating Big Data Solutions with Impala was released on O’Reilly. This caps off a long relationship with Impala that started well before it was released publicly. My relationship with...
