Re:Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six...
by synthc on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:24PM
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These days it's people trying to force Kafka into it and call themselves "streaming experts"
Re:Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six...
by monksy on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:40PM
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Kafka is good.. but it requires a lot of good work to get it working well for a pipeline.
Re:Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six...
by lumost on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:53PM
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Most buzzwords exist for consultants to sell their services. Successful buzzwords turn engineers into "Big Data Engineers" who only want to work on something called big data, and convince management that they need more "big data expertise".
In practice most of these technologies and their peers exist to support real applications, and it would be almost immediately recognizable that they are the appropriate choice when working on a similar application. You don't need a streaming engineer/big data consultant to cram them in.
That's because it didn't get a chance to mature and to show how it could be powerful. People kept trying to force hadoop into it and call themselves "big data experts"
We've gotten a bit more clarity in this world with streaming technologies. However, there hasn't been a good and clear voice to say "hey .. this is how it fits in with your web app and this is what you expect of it". (I'm thinking about developing a talk on this.. how it fits in [hint.. your microservice app shouldn't do any heavy lifting of processing data])