Category: Enterprise
23 Oct, 2019
Dark Data Patterns are not the Future
Last week I talked about the need to understand the monetization and commercialization opportunities of your data assets. This week I want to touch on socially responsible versus dark patterns of data usage. This is a hot button topic for many and includes several facets from privacy to bias...
16 Oct, 2019
Are You a Data Company?
Are you a data company? If you answered, “No”, you are about to become obsolete. Harsh words perhaps, but that is in fact how the economy is evolving. You might even be thinking, “but we just realized that we need to be a technology company, and everyone is now...
09 Oct, 2019
“That is Why You Fail” – Yoda
The problem with many transformation exercises, whether they be of digital, agile, or some other flavor, is that they don’t change the mindset. Expectations for radically better results abound, but the willingness to actually change both what is achieved and how these results are achieved is often lacking. When...
02 Oct, 2019
How to Suck Less Every Day
or 4 Things You Should Always Be Doing I recently sat on a panel discussion on the topic of preparing a business for “economic change”, which I believe is a euphemism for recession. One of the questions the moderator asked us panelists was to elaborate (in 1 minute or...
23 Jul, 2019
Part 2: Industrial IoT CI/CD – An update killed my coffeemaker
This post in the Enterprise IoT series is about applying CI/CD and Serverless techniques to IoT.
11 Apr, 2019
Who’s Really in Control of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Today, if you are building and operating cloud-based or cloud-native applications, the concentration of the source for TCO comes from one place. Your development team. That’s right, the developers essentially control your TCO and neither the business or the developers probably even know it. How is this possible? It...
27 Mar, 2018
8 Things About Digital Transformation Your Parents Never Told You
“Digitial Transformation” has become the buzz phrase du jour. Technology vendors, service providers, and government entities are all heavily investing in either providing transformative digital capabilities or consuming them. Either way, the goal is the same, to be one of the winners of the digital transformation wave that is...
06 Mar, 2018
Emergent Technologies Changing Our World – Part 2
Most everyone is familiar with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and maybe some of the derivatives or competitors; there are several variations of blockchains unleashed on the world today. Many are predicting these digital currencies to be where the value of the economy of the future will be stored- the currency of...
27 Feb, 2018
Migrating to Elastic Search: A Case Study
I am a member of a development team that has nearly completed the task of replacing Apache Solr with Elasticsearch for our web application. This case study is a recounting of the methods used and challenges faced during the experience. Read on to learn why and how we pulled...
20 Apr, 2017
Taming of the Subselect: Three ways to use this troublesome SQL Query
Subselects can be used in many ways: filtering, retrieving specific data, and creating custom joins. Writing effective SQL using subselects, though, can be frustrating. While SQL is ubiquitous in software engineering and is a valuable skill for testing, data analysis and reporting, nowadays a lot of SQL is abstracted...