How we got hereWe are over a decade into the “Big Data” boom. Since I joined the profession, many of the companies seeking to make their mark have become household names, others have just faded into memory. I have fond memories of those earlier days - attending O’Reilly Strata Conferences (when their in-person conferences were still held) where then start-ups such as Cloudera, MapR, and Databricks presented increasingly superior solutions to process data. Another sign of the time was a myriad...
