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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Community Comment: Part 4 - To better enable commercial product comparisons, it's good practice to determine which (if any) open source products are being used by them

Community Comment: Part 3 - Everything is "possible", but not everything is "probable"

Community Comment: Part 2 - Delta Lake is recommended when the minimally compatible version of Spark is already being used

Community Comment: Part 1 - Database products implement ACID differently, and "C" doesn't even belong in the acronym

Media Query Source: Part 30 - DZone (US digital magazine); Executive insights on the state of databases

* DZone (US digital magazine) * Database effectiveness & the future of databases * Last couple years have experienced changing database landscape * One of 19 contributors to 9 key findings My responses ended up being included in a publication at DZone (July 9, 2019) for an article entitled "Executive Insights on the

Media Query Source: Part 29 - CMSWire (US digital magazine); Change management for digital transformation

* CMSWire (US digital magazine) * Digital transformation change management * "Digital transformation" needs to be defined * Planning essential, but plans should be agile My responses ended up being included in an article at CMSWire (May 11, 2018) entitled "Change Management for Digital Transformation". Above image from cited article.

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 2

This article is the second in a multi-part case study series discussing the data platform my team and I built on AWS for the CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy. As explained in the first part, one goal for this platform was to centralize data assets and data analysis across

Media Query Source: Part 28 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Event streaming technologies a remedy for big data's onslaught

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Data streaming hurdles & best practices * Concepts challenging for traditional data pros * Greenfield use cases relatively less complex My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 25, 2020). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image

Media Query Source: Part 27 - Built In (US startup community); The current state of Hadoop

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 25, 2020: Media: The current state of Hadoop. Is it dead? Has its death been greatly exaggerated? Is it just for enterprises? How significant were/are Cloudera's 2019 stock woes? Where does Hadoop fit into the future of

New Book Review: "Burn-In"

New book review for Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, by P. W. Singer and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020: Promotional pre-publication advance reading copy provided by Amazon. The back cover of this novel provides the following synopsis: "America is on the brink of a revolution.