Every company pays lip service to data. “Do you want to understand your customers better?” — YES “Do you want to run a more efficient operation?” — YES “Do you want to do more with data to reach those goals?” — YES Those conversations typically result in talking about the…

This article is the first chapter of a 3-parts tutorial: Part I: From notebook hell to container heaven Part II: I moved my notebook code to a container. It works on my machine… What about everywhere else? Part III: coming soon… The github repository can be found here: https://github.com/datamindedbe/webinar-containers Here’s…

At Data Minded, we are data engineers first and foremost. But in reality, we do a lot of consulting. What is consulting really? I recently gave an internal talk about Consultancy at Data Minded and I thought it would make sense to share my thoughts publicly. I’m curious about your…

The world of data is moving and shaking again. Ever since Hadoop came around, people were offloading workloads from their data warehouses to the new and shiny data lakes. And it didn’t take long before Spark, which was open sourced in 2010, became the standard processing engine on data lakes. …

Last year I blogged about how I got my AWS Pro Architect certificate, which you can read about here. Now it was time to get the Data Analytics Speciality. I won’t repeat all the same things that I wrote in the AWS Pro blogpost. That would be a bit redundant…

Now that the Privacy Shield has been invalidated, there are some legal disputes whether European companies and government agencies can still store sensitive data on the big 3 cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP). …

“It works on my machine”. That’s great. But now how do you make sure it runs in production, repeatedly and reliably? Here we share our lessons learned from deploying many analytics solutions at clients. By the way, what do we mean with “Analytics workloads”? It’s any workload where you send…

Your organisation wants to dive head-first into data and AI but you don’t really know where to start? Data&AI is on the radar of most C-level leaders. It’s often seen as a differentiator from competition, as an enabler for more customer engagement, as a tool for cost reduction. And there…

Is it worth it to spend time and money collecting advanced certifications? In this blog I share my opinion and lessons learned. TL/DR: Yes, you will become quite knowledgeable about the details of AWS, and yes it will look good on your CV. No, it won’t make you a great…