Why I called bullshit on the data lakehouse nonsense

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Why I called bullshit on the data lakehouse nonsense

I wrote an article that took to task purveyors of the data lakehouse nonsense. It got plenty of positive reactions and quite a few negative opinions. But what surprised me the most were the number of people who had already swallowed their pitch. Hook, line and sinker.

So why did I bother to express my opinions on the subject?

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Laugh at Big Data – download my ebook for free on 17th May.

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To celebrate the United Nations World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, my new eBook laughing@bigdata will be free to download from all Amazon sites on Sunday 17th May 2020.

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REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES


REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

Warren Buffett

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Laughing at Big Data – eBook – Great new insight into realities of IT

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Laughing@BigData – New data eBook available at Amazon

Why laugh at Big Data? Informative, educating and entertaining, Laughing@BigData gives you real insider views on big data, agile, AI, data, deep learning, data warehousing, data lakes, IT strategy, leadership and management and much more. If you have the theory this gives you insight into the practice.

Get it from Amazon. It’s super-easy.

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Agile@Scale is bullshit by design


It takes courage to makes things simple.

E. F. Schumacher

To begin at the beginning

To paraphrase the advertising legend Bob Hoffman: ‘Just when you thought that if evangelists for Agile were to generate one more ounce of bullshit, the entire fucking solar system would explode, what do they do? Exceed expectations.’

And how do they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll let you into a little secret about this Agile@Scale stuff, including a brief tour of some of the miscellaneous, spiced-up and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.

But first, a quick look at Agile.

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