Have you heard of Houdini? In the early 1900s, Harry Houdini was likely the most famous entertainer in the world. He was considered the greatest escape artist who ever lived. Yes! Here’s what he’d do the day before his show: … Read more
One of the features of Hadoop is the MapReduce algorithm which was popularized by Google. Basically MapReduce breaks down complex tasks into simpler chunks to be executed in parallel. It’s not new. All MPP shared nothing architectures have had something … Read more
This is a story from Tom Bruer’s fantastic presentation at WWDVC (circa 2014). By the way, if you haven’t already booked your tickets to this years event, there are seats still available here -> Registration He was praising star-schemas as being … Read more
To say that the WWDVC is the most fun, informative and educational Data Vault related conference on the planet and attracts some of the best technology minds from across the planet would be an understatement. This year 2017 is no … Read more
Today we’ll rant on the term “NoSQL” which is even more ambiguous than the term “big data” with it’s ever changing definition. By the way, I quite dislike the term big data as well which has become a big machine … Read more
I’m sure you’ve been to a fast food place and stood in line to order your food. There’s a very limited selection which usually fits on a board on top where you can prominently see it. However, after you make a … Read more
It’s monday morning as I write this and I came across a very interesting piece related to banking regulatory changes in the US. Chances are it will in some shape or form transfer over to other countries (and vice-versa). If … Read more
I got a very good question today (and it’s a common one), so lets address it. “Isn’t moving work like cleansing and business rules downstream of the Data Warehouse (DV) just shifting the problem? We still need to fix it. … Read more
Yes Batman! He’s vulnerable! Batman is one of the most interesting superheroes because unlike spiderman, superman or the hulk; he as NO superpowers. Zilch … Nada … Zero! So, what keeps the guy going? A ton of money? (It helps) … Read more
… You know it (and the beginning of “pragmatic” solutions). As 2014 is launched, we wanted to talk about one of the most hyped up topics of last year … big data and of course the hadoop project. But first, here’s to … Read more