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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 1Q2020

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2020. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) How to Make Mistakes in Python, by Mike Pirnat, O'Reilly, 2015. Copy provided by O'Reilly. The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know

Media Query Source: Part 23

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 18, 2019: Media: Software changes so rapidly, but do developers think about the implications of this in the back of their mind while developing? For example, do they lose motivation when they think about how whatever they're developing

Media Query Source: Part 22 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); AWS data lake & data warehouse options for the cloud

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * AWS data lake & data warehouse options * Lake Formation, Glue & Redshift (Spectrum) * Use cases should drive product adoption My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 14, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above

Media Query Source: Part 21

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 4, 2019: Media: Technical debt is the added cost that's incurred when software is developed quickly with little or no regard to quality and must be reworked to reach its intended objectives. Looking for experts who can answer

Media Query Source: Part 20

The responses I provided to a media outlet on October 8, 2019: Media: Attributes to Look for in a Coder Beyond Coding Skills Gfesser: Note: I use the term "developer" throughout my response, since "coder" brings certain connotations likely not intended by the questions, and "

Personal Reading List: 4Q2019

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2019. 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. What is Augmented Analytics?: Powering Your

Media Query Source: Part 19 - AngelList Talent (US digital magazine); Scrum: A primer on adaptive techniques

* AnglelList Talent (US digital magazine) * Scrum methodology primer * Products evolve, so no deadlines or rigid plans * Story points relative to specific dev team My responses ended up being included in an article at AngelList (November 6, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above

New Book Review: Evolving Data Infrastructure

New book review for Evolving Data Infrastructure: Tools and Best Practices for Advanced Analytics and AI, by Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan, O'Reilly, 2019: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This text is all about O'Reilly's investigation into understanding how firms are making use

Media Query Source: Part 18

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 30, 2019: Media: Hadoop hasn't lived up to its early promise, and the fire sale of MapR to HPE earlier this month is the latest sign of that. What's next, then, for big data? Can Hadoop

New Book Review: Machine Learning at Enterprise Scale

New book review for Machine Learning at Enterprise Scale: How Real Practitioners Handle Six Common Challenges, by Piero Cinquegrana and Matheen Raza, O'Reilly, 2019, reposted here: Copy provided by Qubole. This freely available O'Reilly text discusses six common challenges the authors have identified with respect to