Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Data Management 2018 included DataOps as an emerging topic. Various data analytics vendors picked up the newly-formed term and started offering prepackaged “DataOps solutions”. That triggered a response from Gartner:

DataOps is a practice, not a technology or tool; you cannot buy it in an application. It’s a cultural change supported by tooling, and many of your existing tools may be adequate to bring in the required levels of automation demanded by DataOps. - Hyping DataOps by Nick Heudecker, Gartner

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Prieš savaitę dalinausi savo įžvalgomis apie dirbtinį intelektą ir Azure duomenų analitikos paslaugas Microsoft Lietuva organizuotoje konferencijoje. Kadangi daugiausiai klausimų sulaukiau apie „duomenų ežerą“ (angl. Data Lake), nusprendžiau surašyti savo mintis apie pagrindinius bruožus ir atsakyti į dažniausiai girdimus klausimus apie šias duomenų talpyklas.

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Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is a true story about big plans and even bigger lies. The hero of the story is a company called Theranos, a health technology startup, that collected millions of dollars from investors to reinvent blood testing. The technology breakthrough wasn’t as simple as the founders expected and they ended up lying and faking their blood testing results for real patients.

I am following Scott Hanselman, and I am a regular listener of his Hanselminutes podcast. In one of the latest episodes, Scott talks with Sarah Cooper, the best selling author, comedian, writer, speaker and general trash-talker. Her book “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings” (irony) is fantastic, and in this blog post, you’ll find my top 10 meeting anti-patterns.

“The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win” is one of a kind. I haven’t read anything like that so far, and I’ve loved it.

Mark Bowden is an expert in human behavior and body language expert. Here are my notes from his TEDx Toronto talk about body language nuances.

Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight.

Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize, so you don’t die a fucking pussy. Call yourself out! Nobody likes to hear the hard truth. Individually and as a culture, we avoid what we need to hear most. - David Goggins

In December 2018, David Goggins started appearing as a guest on various Youtube channels. First, I noticed him on the Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, and that was the first time I saw David’s face: focused, military, somewhat bizarre. Later, I found him on Rich Roll’s and Joe Rogan’s shows, and that was a tipping point to search for more information about him. DAVID GOGGINS IS ONE OF A KIND.