Jesse Anderson
jesse-anderson.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Jesse Anderson, a big data consultant and teacher, writes about Kafka, Apache Beam, Hadoop and data engineering.
What HN saysHN commenters describe him as a respected, self-taught big data expert and former Cloudera employee who teaches data engineering.
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- 1Question and Answers with the Apache Beam Team2 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 2To Cloud with Big Data Messaging or Not? I Compare Kafka and Google Pub/Sub2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3I Come Not to Bury Cloudera but to Praise It2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Creating Work Queues with Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar2 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 5A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare1 people · 24 points · first shared 2011 · 5 comments on HN
- 6I Recommend My Clients Not Use KSQL and Kafka Streams1 people · 17 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Getting Stuck Crawling with Big Data1 people · 10 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Inifinite Monkey Theorem: Recreating Shakespeare using Hadoop and EC21 people · 10 points · first shared 2011 · 8 comments on HN
- 9Hadoop MapReduce Dedupe Algorithm1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10Unit Testing Kafka Streams1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11Should you learn MapReduce or Spark?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Q and A: Is a Data Engineer the Same Thing as a BI or DBA?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13What Happens When You Hire a Data Scientist Without a Data Engineer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14What Do I Look for in Data Engineers?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Solving the First and Last Mile Problem with Kafka Part 21 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
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michaelalexis · 2017-05-05
anecdotal, but Jesse Anderson is a world class big data expert, former Cloudera, etc. and my understanding is he is entirely self taught: http://www.jesse-anderson.com/
eljefe6a · 2017-05-05
I teach data engineering and data science. I've taught at hundreds of companies. Yes, there are self-taught people doing data science in the real world. They're few and far between, but they are out there.
If you're coming from a programming background, I'd suggest becoming a Data Engineer with the goal of becoming a Data Scientist. I've had several students do that. They were general programmers who learned Big Data/data engineering and eventually became more technical Data Scientists. You can start to learn more about the whys here: http://www.jesse-anderson.com/2017/03/what-happens-when-you-hire-a-dat…