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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

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, reposted here: 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

Media Query Source: Part 26

The responses I provided to a media outlet on July 7, 2020: Media: Is the pace of data and database movement to the cloud accelerating? Gfesser: Firms are increasingly leveraging the cloud to both host and process data, using both managed and containerized services. Decreased costs are driving much of

Personal Reading List: 3Q2020

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2020. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, by P. W. Singer and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Copy provided by Amazon. The Model Thinker: What

New Book Review: "Julia for Beginners"

New book review for Tanmay Teaches Julia for Beginners: A Springboard to Machine Learning for All Ages, by Tanmay Bakshi, McGraw-Hill, 2019, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. As the author mentions in the preface to this book, the content he provides here is intended to work towards his goal

Personal Reading List: 2Q2020

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2020. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You, by Scott E. Page, Basic Books, 2018. Tanmay Teaches Julia for Beginners: A

Media Query Source: Part 25 - Unite.AI (US digital magazine); Erik interviewed by Unite.AI

* Unite.AI (US digital magazine) * Q&A with CEO of Unite.AI * My career in software engineering & data * Tooling has converged between these spaces My responses ended up being included in the Interview Series at Unite.AI (April 21, 2020), a San Francisco based media firm "designed

New Book Review: Disruptive Analytics

New book review for Disruptive Analytics: Charting Your Strategy for Next-Generation Business Analytics, by Thomas W. Dinsmore, Apress, 2016: The author mentions at the outset that analytics industry leaders have been struggling, for reasons apparently not associated with product quality, but with disruption. Powerful forces are rearranging the industry: rapidly

New Book Review: Rethinking Strategy

New book review for Rethinking Strategy, by Steve Tighe, Wiley, 2019: Copy provided by author Steve Tighe. The author mentions in his introduction that he feels this is the book he needed to read on his first day as foresight manager at Foster's. "As I sat at

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 1

The CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy contacted SPR to build out a data platform. While the core platform was to be built by the corporate IT organization run by the CIO, the goal was that this platform would be used by other organizations outside corporate IT as well to

Media Query Source: Part 24

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2020: Media: We hear a lot about data transformation these days and most companies are going through some stage of data transformation. Since data tends to be the domain of the IT group, it can be easy to assume