Was I Too Snarky? A Big Data NoSQL Roast
At Enterprise Data World last week I had a chance to defend my crown at the Lightning Talk sessions. Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations, usually done to highlight one point or to motivate people to go do something.
Most of my lightning talks, though, are rants on some thing. Think a 5-minute long roast. This year, I picked on Big Data and NoSQL names and terms. While it appears that one person didn’t fully grasp the "roast" part of this rant, I think I did okay. At least most of the laughter wasn’t at me, but with me.
Mark Burnelli, Senior New Editor at SearchDataManagment.techtarget.com wrote an article about my rant:
The humorous verbal shellacking of big data — which generated plenty of audience laughs — came at the hands of Karen Lopez, a senior project manager and principal consultant with InfoAdvisors Inc. Lopez is also proprietor of the popular Datachick Twitter feed and often uses that outlet to post admittedly snarky comments about the world of information management.
Datachick gives ‘big data’ a verbal beat down at Enterprise Data World
I did start my presentation by saying:
By the way, every single one of these rants is totally unfair, cherry picked and irreverent. I know. It’s shocking.
I will be blogging the entire rant over on Dataversity.net and will post here when it goes live.
Update:
- My blog post with the Big Data rant is now up on Dataversity.
- John Biderman has blogged there about his NoSQL Epiphany.
- Paul Williams coved this rant in is Overview of Enterprise Data World 2012.
I should also mention, to those of you snickering, that I am currently drafting a similar rant for the RDBMS technology/naming/terminology set. It will also be full of snark. Shocking, I know.
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