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Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability

Community Comment: Part 15 - Tech industry titles like "architect" aren't standardized

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Director at Executive Search Firm: Do not hire an architect if you want them to be sat writing code all day long! Sounds simple, right? Well, as crazy as it sounds, almost every week I speak to architects who

Community Comment: Part 14 - Vendor data products like Snowflake, Redshift & BigQuery are infrastructure, not data architecture

Media Query Source: Part 37 - The Data Chief (ThoughtSpot podcast); My biggest data priority this year (2022)

Note: unfortunately for the first time, I withdrew my response from consideration after discussing further with the Deloitte communications team. As I explained to folks at The Data Chief, while my response was generic, some uncertainty had subsequently been introduced as to whether the details I shared were permissible, and

Community Comment: Part 13 - No direct competition exists between Java & Python

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Programming Jokes / IT Humor & Memes Group: python or java ?? Gfesser: Just because both Java and Python are general purpose languages doesn't mean there's a battle between them. In my opinion, there's no

Community Comment: Part 12 - Now that all companies are software companies, people who like data and use code are more common

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Chief Consulting Officer at Investment Management Firm: I've come to the conclusion that the working world is roughly split into two groups… 1. People who like pictures and use powerpoint 2. People who like numbers and use

Media Query Source: Part 34 - MSDynamicsWorld (US digital magazine); Azure Data Box is counterpart to AWS Snow product family

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 27, 2022: Media: What are the biggest gaps in Data Box capabilities, if any? Gfesser: The Azure Data Box family of products is essentially used to get data into Azure, focusing on storage optimized hardware. In contrast, the AWS Snow

New Book Review: "Python Programming for Beginners"

New book review for Python Programming for Beginners: A Kid's Guide to Coding Fundamentals, by Patricia Foster, Rockridge Press, 2020: Copy provided by Amazon. In her one-page "How to Use this Book" introduction, Foster states that "this book will teach you the basics of Python

Media Query Source: Part 33 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Hadoop vs Spark: An an-depth big data framework comparison

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Apache Hadoop & Apache Spark * Overlap can exist between installations * Performance & use cases My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (May 7, 2021). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article.

New Book Review: "Learning Spark (Second Edition)"

New book review for Learning Spark (Second Edition), by Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee, O'Reilly, 2020: Copy provided by Databricks at Spark + AI Summit 2020. The foreword and preface to this book comment that an update to the first edition, published in 2015,