No Experience in NoSQL? No Problem.
Posted by Derek Laufenberg on 09 June 2014 10:24 PM |
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I just attended a great talk at the Evanta CDO Chicago event. Sriram Mohan of Avalon Consulting, LLC. and Rose-Hullman Institute of Technology spoke on the challenge of finding people who have Big Data or Enterprise NoSQL skills. This topic really resonated with me because, as a Sales Engineering Director for MarkLogic, I’m looking to hire engineers skilled in both. As Sriram says: Few people have any real experience, so how do you find individuals with skills that can close the gap? What would those skills be? Faced with the challenge of building a team that can deliver MarkLogic’s Enterprise NoSQL message and use the technology to prove our capabilities, I listened intently to Sriram’s suggestions. These are a few of the skills that stood out:
There were a few others on Sriram’s list, but these are the ones that validate what I’m targeting in my hires. And because the good professor teaches MarkLogic in his database courses, I hope to see some of his students in the near future! The final point I gathered from Sriram’s talk was a simple question: “Do you even need Hadoop?” This was an aside, to the skills discussion, but I really think it’s an important question. I often speak with people who “need Hadoop” but aren’t completely sure why. I’ll save that topic for another blog entry. | |