Is there a place for Data in the DevOps revolution?By Steve RycroftAfter the American and French Revolutions, the Western world economies began to grow – fast. The first big demand from the burgeoning middle class was for ready-made fabrics fashioned into all types of clothing, bedding, sails for shipping, towels, etc. Cotton was a versatile material that could satisfy many needs, and it was also comfortable. But production was limited because of the manual processes of the time, until the advent of the cotton gin. The cotton gin ushered in the... |
Balancing Cost, Scalability & Performance in Cloud AnalyticsBy Rohit TandonSizing up any processing workload, whether Data Warehousing (aggregations, mostly I/O intensive) or any Data Sciences processing workload (primarily CPU intensive, but depends on algorithms) is a matter of diligent analysis that relies on multiple factors. For example:Is the processing or algorithm CPU intensive or I/O intensiveData volumesAggregationsIndexingCode quality & efficiencyProgramming language / Tool of choiceData store being used and where it falls on the CAP TheoremChoice... |
Data Management Proof of Concepts and Pilots in the CloudBy Vin Siegfried with Rohit Tandon, Steve Rycroft, and Dan MeersThe current cycle of innovation and especially data innovation has been romanticized and lampooned, in television series (Silicon Valley) in business books and in movies. The terms used are now familiar to most of us: “MVP” is not only the best player on the ball team. “Early Exit” is not only when you leave a boring party early. Rounds A, B, C are not only stages in a darts tournament. There are good reasons this terminology is slipping into our... |
Metadata and Data Lakes: Retaining Corporate MemoryBy Vin SiegfriedWe are in a very special period in the history of technology, where new and real innovation in data management is in the news every day. It all has me worried however. It reminds me of “Flowers for Algernon,” an award-winning short story which was made into a good movie called Charly. The story line is poignant—a mentally disabled man is given an experimental surgery which at first improves his cognitive capabilities modestly but then continues to... |
