Publications

Selected Articles

4 Reasons Open Source Matters for Cloud Security (2023, Dark Reading)
When we depend on an open commons as our computing foundation, we need it to be secure, and the most effective way to do that is through open solutions.

What is Big Data? (2012, O’Reilly Radar)
Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems.

Breaking Down Data Silos (2016, Harvard Business Review)
The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data.

The Experimental Enterprise (2014, Forbes.com)
Creating an organization designed for data-informed decision—the experimental enterprise—is the key to competing in a world that’s being rapidly digitized.

Editorships

  • Big Data

    Founding Editor of the leading peer-reviewed journal covering the challenges and opportunities in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating vast amounts of data (2013-2014). Journal homepage.

    Cover of Big Data Journal

  • XML.com

    Managing Editor of the flagship industry publication for XML (1999-2004)

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Training

  • Developing a Modern Enterprise Data Strategy (O'Reilly)

    If you want to develop a modern enterprise data strategy in your organization this learning path is for you. The team at Silicon Valley Data Science will explain how you can solve real business challenges with data. From determining the business imperatives that underpin the goals, to defining the roadmap that leads to tactical decision-making, they’ll walk you through the complete process for creating a data strategy that will help your company experiment in such a way that you fail well, create value quickly, and become innovative and data-driven.

  • The Experimental Enterprise: Building a Data-Driven Business (Addison-Wesley)

    Within IT, there are six critical building blocks that can be used to build an experimental enterprise: the cloud, devops, and open source; agile development and platforms; and data science. This video introduces each of these building blocks in turn, and explains how the audience can use them in their own organizations to adapt and thrive under challenging and rapidly changing market conditions.

Books

  • Cover of Learning Rails 3 book

    Learning Rails (O'Reilly)

    If you’re a web developer or designer ready to learn Rails, this unique book is the ideal way to start. Read more at Google Books.

  • Mono: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly)

    The Mono Project is the open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's .NET Development Framework. Read more at Google Books.

  • Programming Web Services with XML-RPC (O'Reilly)

    Explains XML-RPC, a system for remote procedure calls built on XML and the ubiquitous HTTP protocol. Read more at Google Books.

  • Linux Unwired book cover

    Linux Unwired (O'Reilly)

    The book provides a complete introduction to all the wireless technologies supported by Linux. Read more at Google Books.