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Erik Gfesser

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Personal Reading List: 2Q2018

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2018. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, O'Reilly, 2017. Copy provided by O'Reilly. Designing Data-Intensive Applications:

New Book Review: "Gradle Essentials"

New book review for Gradle Essentials, by Kunal Dabir and Abhinandan, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: The only relatively recently published (circa early-2018) text on mastering Gradle fundamentals. Although I have been a long-time Apache Maven user, I admittedly resisted a move to Gradle a few years ago when some

From the Trenches: Technology Radar Volume #17

Introduction The title of this post is influenced by a 2012 post of mine which went into detail discussing a suite of commercial products that I had used on a project at that time, with the tagline "from the trenches" to emphasize that my writing was from personal

Media Query Source: Part 11

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 8, 2018: Media: Why are microservices becoming so popular with large brands like Netflix? Are they the future of app building? Are smaller companies seeing the same benefits? Do microservices bring the same benefits to small scale projects with small

Media Query Source: Part 10

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2018: Media: What is likely to happen with open source in the coming years? This coming week we'll be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Open Source, which is officially celebrated on February 3rd. It has come a

New Book Review: "Spring Boot Messaging"

New book review for Spring Boot Messaging: Messaging APIs for Enterprise and Integration Solutions, by Felipe Gutierrez, Apress, 2017, reposted here: When I first ran across this text, I debated whether it would make sense to acquire a copy for a recent client project of mine. As a relatively early

Personal Reading List: 1Q2018

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2018. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2017. Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers

New Book Review: "RabbitMQ in Depth"

New book review for RabbitMQ in Depth, by Gavin M. Roy, Manning Publications, 2018, reposted here: The bottom line: this book is one of the best organized, succinctly written technology texts I have ever run across, with a phenomenal mix of text, diagrams, and code. So if you are looking

What is Big Data? (November 6, 2014)

Quite recently, I overheard a project colleague of mine having a discussion with someone on the phone. Somewhat abruptly, he covered the mouthpiece of the phone and whispered a question to me: "Erik, are we doing big data on this project?" My short answer, without thinking too much

Media Query Source: Part 9 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Non-RDBMS emerges as an analytics data choice

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Growing adoption of non-RDBMS for analytics * Further database product hybridization likely * Product selection due diligence important My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (October 31, 2017). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited