I love it when a gnarly technical concept can be elegantly explained via a good analogy. In fact, I have found myself searching for these perfect analogies throughout my career. I’ve been working on NoSQL projects of late, and…
Analytics & Data
A collection of 5 posts
Brewer's CAP Theorem for Non-Techies
Brewer’s CAP theorem explains the different approaches to storing and retreiving large quantities of data. It basically says that you can just pick 2 of the 3 following characteristics for your distributed data architecture, where the job of the…
The Problem of Analysis Illiteracy Among Users
I’ve worked on several "Big Data" products over the years. I’ve always inspired myself and others (or at least attempted to inspire others) with goal of helping regular people gain true insight from the hoards of…
The Joy of Big Data
The enterprise software landscape has shifted away from the big BI and RDBMS monoliths and toward startups with awesome new “Big Data” technology. These technologies could solve customer problems that were previously assumed to be unsolvable. What is “Big Data”…
How they fit: Hadoop, traditional data warehouses, and ETL
Hadoop is starting to come into mainstream consciousness. As a result, a lot of people are grappling with understanding the relationship between Hadoop and traditional data warehouses, and how ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load technology) fits into the picture. On…