by Maxx Silver | Feb 28, 2022 | Data Engineering, Data Management
“Building business logic is a low priority, from my perspective.” This was what my CEO said to me as I shared with him my priorities for the week. The funny part? I work for a data engineering firm and operationalising the development of business logic is literally...
by Maxx Silver | Feb 15, 2022 | Data Engineer, Data Engineering, Data Management, Thought Piece
“When you need capability that you don’t have, there are two options: you can build it yourself, or you can partner to get it.” This was a comment made by a Senior IT Leader in a meeting of his organisation’s executives with BizCubed CEO, Zachary Zeus. We’ve...
by Maxx Silver | Feb 4, 2021 | Data Engineering, Security
What does it mean to be secure? For some, security might represent a state of being – the absence of threat. Perhaps you’re picturing locked doors, a gated community, or a prison fence. All of these representations help us feel secure, but in and of themselves, they...
by Maxx Silver | Jan 27, 2021 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Data Engineering
What’s the value of data engineering? Meet Mark. Mark was an analyst at a non-profit that offered job-training to disadvantaged populations. The non-profit was structured as a social enterprise that operated restaurants, cafes, catering, etc. Mark was accountable for...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 20, 2020 | Data Engineering, Fun and Interesting, How To, Pentaho
This is part 2 of the post about using a Pentaho CTools Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form to send data to a Pentaho transformation (see Part 1) . This means that we can use a CDE form to allow users to put data into the Pentaho system and it can be used for...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 14, 2020 | Data Engineering
This is a Part 1 of a simple tutorial for using a Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form in the Pentaho BA server to end data and pass it to a Pentaho transformation for storage/processing. See Part 2 for building the back-end handler First create a New CDE Dashboard...