Book Description
Big data has more disruptive potential than any information technology developed in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this revealing book, big data can provide unprecedented visibility into the operational efficiency of enterprises and agencies.
Disruptive Possibilities provides an historically-informed overview through a wide range of topics, from the evolution of commodity supercomputing and the simplicity of big data technology, to the ways conventional clouds differ from Hadoop analytics clouds. This relentlessly innovative form of computing will soon become standard practice for organizations of any size attempting to derive insight from the tsunami of data engulfing them.
Replacing legacy silos—whether they’re infrastructure, organizational, or vendor silos—with a platform-centric perspective is just one of the big stories of big data. To reap maximum value from the myriad forms of data, organizations and vendors will have to adopt highly collaborative habits and methodologies.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Wall of Water
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2. Big Data: The Ultimate Computing Platform
- Introduction to Platforms
- Come Fly with Me
- Computing Platforms
- The End of an Era
- Back to the Future
- High Divers and Fire Fighters
- I’ll Take Silos for $1000, Alex
- Engineering Big Data Platforms
- The Art and Craft of Platform Engineering at Global Scale
- KISS Me Kate
- The Response Time Continuum
- Perpetual Prototyping
- Epic Fail Insurance
- Optimize Absolutely Everything
- Mind the Gap
- 3. Organizations: The Other Platform
- 4. The Reservoir of Data
- 5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: When Clouds Meet Big Data
- 6. Haystacks and Headgames