Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | June 12, 2023 at 09:51 AM
Numbers don't mean anything if people don't understand, or trust, the computation behind them.
Doug Meil and Michael Onders From BLOG@CACM | February 2, 2023 at 09:47 AM
Acquisitions happen quite often in the tech industry and are far more complicated to pull off successfully than popping a pill.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | January 3, 2023 at 02:08 PM
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | June 2, 2022 at 09:10 AM
Managing included versions of third-party software components too often puts developers in no-win situations.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | January 19, 2022 at 09:51 AM
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | September 17, 2021 at 12:07 PM