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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 7

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 8, 2017: Media: How to Explain Microservices in Plain English. My responses addressed the more detailed questions as follows: Media: How do you define microservices succinctly? Gfesser: A microservice can be described as an independently running application that is responsible

New Book Review: "Microservices vs. Monoliths"

New book review for Microservices vs. Monoliths: The Reality Beyond the Hype, by Chris Richardson, Dan Haywood, Mike Gehard, Matt McLarty, Mark Little, and Adrian Cockcroft, C4Media (Publisher of InfoQ.com), 2017, reposted here: This book brings together several previously published articles, blog posts, and presentations by individuals who have

New Book Review: "Spring Microservices"

New book review for Spring Microservices, by Rajesh RV, Packt Publishing, 2016, reposted here: The mix of theory and practice that this book provides is among the best I have ever run across, although those looking to potentially work through this book should be aware that a number of issues

New Book Review: "Migrating to Microservice Databases"

New book review for Migrating to Microservice Databases: From Relational Monolith to Distributed Data, by Edson Yanaga, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: This book addresses a much-needed topic in microservices architecture: the database in the context of microservices. However, after reading several other books on microservices architecture, I found

New Book Review: "Microservices vs. Service-Oriented Architecture"

New book review for Microservices vs. Service-Oriented Architecture, by Mark Richards, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Unlike some other books focused on microservices architecture, Richards specifically investigates microservices architecture in the context of service-oriented architecture (SOA) that came to dominate the technology industry circa 2005. As the author explains

New Book Review: "Reactive Microservices Architecture"

New book review for Reactive Microservices Architecture: Design Principles for Distributed Systems, by Jonas Bonér, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: This text provides an introductory look at Reactive microservices architecture, written by Jonas Bonér, co-author of the Reactive Manifesto. After a brief look at the general concept of microservices,

New Book Review: "Introduction to Apache Flink"

New book review for Introduction to Apache Flink: Stream Processing for Real Time and Beyond, by Ellen Friedman and Kostas Tzoumas, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Good effort on the first (and currently only) book available on Apache Flink. As the authors comment in the introductory pages, the purpose

Chicago Apache Flink Meetup (CHAF):Hands-on Apache Flink Workshop (February 21, 2017)

From the promotional materials: In this workshop, we will go over a hands on tutorial highlighting building a Flink stream processor. The workshop will show you how to 1. Set up a stream consisting of Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus tracker data 2. Use different types of windowing techniques to

Truth Revisited

Back in November 2009, during my then annual visit to the RSNA trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, I came across a slogan on display in the Cerner Corporation exhibit which read "Single Source of TruthTM". As a consultant, I was surprised that such a