Jim Scott

Jim Scott

Jim Scott helped build the Hadoop community in Chicago as cofounder of the Chicago Hadoop Users Group. He has implemented Hadoop to support a variety of enterprise use cases from Online Transactional Processing at a rate of 60B transactions per day to full data center monitoring and retail analytics. Jim speaks at many industry events around the world on big data technologies and is the creator of the Zeta Architecture. 
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Why Microservices are so important

Programming

Why Microservices are so important


  • Monday, November 7, 2016
  • By Jim Scott

Having been a software engineer for nearly 20 years I have an appreciation for what is important when it comes to creating great software. One of the most important things that is not well understood by non-engineers is that the development process i...


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