Community Comment: Part 19 - Firms have more choices than just buy vs build
* Firms have more choices than vendors admit
* The "buy vs build" choice is nuanced
* Commercial & open source fall on spectrum
* Blanket $ statements cannot be made
Topic
community
A collection of 50 issues
Community Comment: Part 18 - Lines of code (LOC) is not a good productivity measure
* Lines of code (LOC) not good productivity measure
* Preparation rewards !> participation rewards
* Finish time matters for running race
* End product matters for software
Community Post: Part 1 - My proposal to DB-Engines for inclusion of Databricks was successful!
* My open letter to DB-Engines
* Gartner's "DBMS market share ranks" post
* Databricks left out of DB-Engines ranking
* My proposal to DB-Engines was successful
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 16 - The categories I use for my reading lists
The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread.
Founder of Taproot Foundation and Imperative: Need your advice, please. I buy and get a lot of books as gifts – which I love. My new home office and frankly our house is starting to be overflowing with them. I
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
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