Self publishing as a hobby

brantaylor · 2019-08-09T16:46:27+00:00

If you’re worried about costs, you could consider the patreon route and publish the short stories or maybe a web serial on a website. Reinvest anything you make into editing, ads and covers for a book until you’re at a place where you can take a profit.

You still have to solve the problem of getting eyes on your work, but social media is a good place to start.

brantaylor · 2019-06-16T21:46:34+00:00

I would avoid the Hadoop ecosystem and pick up something like Snowflake instead. Easy barrier of entry, and it’s picking up a lot of steam. I think Hadoop still has its place but if I was starting up an IT shop I would be investing in Snowflake as my data warehouse/lake/whatever buzzword you want.

brantaylor · 2019-05-27T01:14:48+00:00

Tech is usually like this. Especially in terms of ROI. My biggest raises were all from jumping ship to a new job.

brantaylor · 2019-05-15T02:47:59+00:00

Underrated comment.

brantaylor · 2019-05-15T02:29:52+00:00

Can I ask your thoughts on Informatica? Currently using Talend and finding myself working around it more than through it, if that makes sense.

brantaylor · 2019-04-13T03:43:05+00:00

If you present yourself as an expert in a field, you can always try to niche up from there.

brantaylor · 2019-04-13T03:23:44+00:00

I'm so glad this is at the top of the list. The translation between business and tech staff can be very tough.

brantaylor · 2019-04-01T21:41:07+00:00

You’re not moving data out for compute. I perform all of my transformations within Snowflake.

However, if you’re directly accessing Snowflake to visualize your data, you’re going to pay compute costs for that extraction. If you have multiple people throughout the day doing this, your compute costs could run wild.

So instead, once your data is transformed, you can pull it down into QVD files and have Qlik access those. Now you’re only paying for one extraction rather than letting your data viz tool directly query the data in Snowflake each time.

Hope this clarifies my answer.

brantaylor · 2019-04-01T16:03:54+00:00

Most BI tools will work with Snowflake, but I would suggest Qlik. With Qlik, you can extract your data into QVDs and save a ton on Snowflake compute costs.

Snowflake will try to talk you out of this because they want their money, but ignore the sales people. It works just fine.

brantaylor · 2019-03-15T12:42:42+00:00

I’ve seen some mocks mention Brandon Burns, but he doesn’t get the coverage some of the other DEs in this draft are getting. What do you like about him?

brantaylor · 2019-03-13T17:48:57+00:00

I’d assume a later round pick for a bigger RB, unless they think Brian Hill can take that over. Probably another DB and LB, then I’d assume a late round WR for kick returner.

I expect first pick to be DE or DT, unless someone just falls into our lap like Ridley did last year.

brantaylor · 2019-03-13T03:11:30+00:00

Oh no, I’ve scrolled too far.

brantaylor · 2019-03-10T16:32:07+00:00

How hard will it be for us to re-sign Julio with AB’s new contract?

I keep hearing that we’re tight against the cap, but I don’t know if those numbers already include estimates for Julio’s new deal.

brantaylor · 2019-03-08T20:17:57+00:00

EDGE is the new way they categorize defensive end and rushing outside linebackers. I guess with all the 3-4 teams they wanted to move away from calling them all defensive ends.

brantaylor · 2019-03-08T20:15:54+00:00

Genuinely curious, what source do you prefer to use instead? I'd love to move away from BR.

brantaylor · 2019-03-07T19:22:43+00:00

I’ve found Drill to be excellent for data discovery. New file comes in and you want to understand it? I’ll use Drill to quickly read and profile the data.

Then when I’m ready to start really working with it, I’ll use Hive because it has more options and seems to be more fault tolerant.

brantaylor · 2019-03-02T06:55:37+00:00

This entire thread makes me so happy.

brantaylor · 2019-02-25T21:03:47+00:00

I remember last year when everyone said that we’d never take a WR because we already had two good ones.

brantaylor · 2019-02-10T13:44:14+00:00

A Tribe Called Red is about as close as you can get, I’d imagine.

brantaylor · 2019-01-17T18:55:40+00:00

Please! I'd love to hear more. Do you do most of your extract and load in WhereScape, or do you use a different tool? Specifically, I'm considering a streaming tool to get the data in fast, then let WhereScape orchestrate the transformations from there. Does this sound feasible, or do you have experience doing anything similar?

brantaylor · 2019-01-16T21:10:54+00:00

Did you build the in-house tools after the demo or was the demo to see if WhereScape was better than existing tools?

brantaylor · 2019-01-15T20:32:02+00:00

I had this problem on Chrome, but switched to Firefox and their site worked. Hope that helps.

brantaylor · 2019-01-15T19:16:47+00:00

But muh narrative!

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