New Book Review: "Architecting Data Lakes"
New book review for Architecting Data Lakes: Data Management Architectures for Advanced Business Use Cases, by Alice LaPlante and Ben Sharma, O'Reilly, 2016:
Copy provided by O'Reilly.
This freely available book from O'Reilly is only the third available on the topic of data lakes, and all three have been published within the last six months (an additional text is scheduled to be published a few months from now). The main complaints with the first two books appear to fall in line with gripes frequently communicated by technologists about other books around the impracticality of the presented material. While my thought is that there is a time and place for hands-on, step-by-step instruction, one big problem with too literal of an approach that leans in this direction is that technologies come and go, and there are many such as myself who do not wish to become tool jockeys in the sense of learning how to do something with a tool, but not understanding the concepts behind what they are doing (not to mention the fact that many have grown risk averse to becoming locked into using a particular commercial vendor tool to do something).