Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 1,546 through 1,560 (of 3,670 total)

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    From what I've read AWS EMR is an implementation of MapR

  • RE: Data Lakes

    Unsupervised digital landfill. Doesn't sound as nice as a lake does it?

    Actually Hadoop fulfils a data lake need reasonably well. Lets suppose that you have data that you...

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    Eric, you've reminded me of a good point. There seem to be five key Hadoop distributions.

    • Hortonworks = 100% open source
    • Cloudera = open source with Cloudera Navigator, Manager and Director...

  • RE: What's Coming True?

    BYOD or Choose Your Own Device taking off. Serious thought going into legitimate synchronisation between private and company devices.

    More automation but staff doing more and possibly different things.

    SQL2015 delayed but...

  • RE: A Beginners Look at Hadoop

    I wrote this article just over 18 months ago and in that time the entire Hadoop ecosystem has evolved considerably. The whole Big Data space is moving so fast...

  • RE: The Rich Rewards of Tuning SQL

    My greatest fear is that some tech debt ridden piece of crud gets delivered to live and becomes my headache to support for ever. I get penalised for not...

  • RE: Kitchen Culture

    GoofyGuy (12/22/2014)


    The best management consulting scam I've seen to date was this thing called the Fish Philosophy, which basically told management that they were all "Awesome, yeah!" and that if...

  • RE: We Want Maturity, But Is It Fun?

    For me it is the people I work with who make it fun.

    We have silos as a solution to a defined problem but the silos themselves cause problems. The...

  • RE: Deleting Data

    As part of a data governance and stewardship role I have to consider who in my organisation should have access to personally identifiable information, in what context and for how...

  • RE: GUIDs GUIDs everywhere, but how is my data unique?

    Caveat. All answers have an implicit "It Depends"

    Q: Why add another unique key when a naturally occurring one already exists?

    A: If you have a package...

  • RE: Go Small

    I don't think it has to be free. The important thing is to minimise discouragements i.e. awkward locations, strange times, high costs, loads of pre-requisites.

  • RE: Go Small

    To a certain extent these exist already. http://www.meetup.com/

    I go to a few of the technical ones and I know people who use them for social events.

  • RE: The Last Job

    I lost loads from my pension pot with Equitable Life so financially my family is more likely to benefit from "death in service" than my pension.

    I know several people who...

  • RE: Overcoming Proposal Objections

    I had a very candid conversation with someone at board level. Someone at board level of a company quoted on the stock exchange is always likely to be looking...

  • RE: Always Canary

    I've been looking at a product called "Docker" which allows you to spin up a pre-configured machine. One of the guys in the DevOps team used it to demonstrate...

  • Viewing 15 posts - 1,546 through 1,560 (of 3,670 total)