[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 12:15:53 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/18/2018 11:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > On 8/18/2018 1:13 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> >> In article <mailman.0.1534605514.19671.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
> >> Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> writes:
> >>> DevOps needs to be defined because in most large enterprises I have been
> >>> in the last 10 years (including Federal Govt), this concept is just a
> >>> water cooler discussion topic.
> >>
> >> Indeed.  Sort of like big data.
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really
> >> knows how
> >> to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone
> >> claims they
> >> are doing it.
> >>
> >>
> >> ---Dan Ariely
> > Big data is being used.
> >
> > Intelligence agencies, social media, retail, health care,
> > election campaigns, science, sports etc..
> >
> > Arne
> >
> >
> 
> Don't have a clue what "big data" actually is.  Now, if it's the social 
> media junk, I think calling it "data" is sort of a stretch ...

Many in our industry don't know what it means but it is something that started in 2003 when Google published an ACM paper describing GFS (the Google File System) which later morphed into Hadoop and other stuff. Big Data really exploded in 2007 but, according to some, the financial meltdown of 2007-2008 obscured this paradigm shift.

Anyway, here is my point-form explanation for whatever its worth

http://neilrieck.net/docs/technological_change.html#epiphany11

I'm sure many people here wondered (at the time) how Google was going to store all those images associated with Google Street View?

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net