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
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How they fit: Hadoop, traditional data warehouses, and ETL
Hadoop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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…
The Joy of Big Data
These days I’m feeling more inspired to blog about the emerging “Big Data” technologies than about generic Product Management or Product Marketing. I am naturally interested in this sector because half my career was spent in the Business Intelligence…