Saurabh Gupta's Blog

Hey guys, Recently I got interviewed by Qwerty Thoughts, a startup on a mission to Connect People Over Books…It was a pleasant experience but the question that struck me the most was – The story behind my first book. Took me back into the memory lanes, dilemmas and discussions that took me through the realization… Read More How I authored my first book?

The fact is not new that data-driven outcomes have been one of the most electrifying revelations of the 20th century. Almost every organization considers data as the primary driver for their business and growth. Several strategies have evolved to manage the storage, analytics, and consumption of data. Not just for regulatory purposes, but data help… Read More Thinking to setup a Data Lake for your org – let’s read this!

Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights made it to the Best New Big Data Books I’m happy to announce that my book, “Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights: Handle Data-Driven Challenges in an Enterprise Big Data Lake”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best New Big Data Books: https://bookauthority.org/books/new-b... BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and … Continue reading "Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights made it to the Best New Big Data Books"

Numbers don’t lie. They empower you to be smart and stay decisive. Recently, I stumbled upon the bookmetrix portal that publishes by-chapter metrics of a book. Metrics are straight enough to discover book’s most loved chapters. Although the numbers were not skewed by high margin, I realized the fact that “Data Lake Ingestion Strategies” has … Continue reading "Data Lake Ingestion strategies"

Hey All, Faced some really proud moments last week. I was one of the only 100 winners of NEXT100 CIO 2018 award. NEXT100 is an annual awards program instituted by IT Next magazine and the 9.9 Group that aims to identify 100 experienced IT managers who have the skills, talent and spirit to become CIOs. The … Continue reading "ITNEXT NEXT100 CIO – 2018"

Why replicate a data lake? Building an enterprise data lake demands heavy weightlifting in terms of cost, planning, technical design, architecture, and operational excellence. Building another infrastructure as a standby will shoot up both capex and opex. Therefore, before proceeding to the planning phase, one must have a strong justification and clear objective behind setting … Continue reading "Design considerations to replicate Data Lake site for Availability"

For straight fourth year, I was pleased to be the part of AIOUG ODevCYatra as a speaker. This year, AIOUG re-branded the ages old OTNYathra as ODevCYatra to align its focus to the fatty developer community. The thought and execution remained the same though – 7 cities, 35 speakers, and a very tight schedule. I … Continue reading "Achieve Data Democracy with effective Data Integration"

Big Data IT is driven by competition. Organizations want to exploit the power of data analytics at a manageable cost to stand out of their competitors. Data lake provides scalable framework to store massive volumes of data and churn out analytical insights that can help them in effective decision making and grow new markets. It … Continue reading "What to expect from your Data Lake"

Hello All, Gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of our book “Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights” with Apress. The book takes an end-to-end solution approach in a data lake environment that includes data capture, processing, security, and availability. Credits to the co-author of the book, Venkata Giri and technical reviewer, Sai Sundar. The … Continue reading →

Last year November, I got the opportunity to present at AIOUG Sangam, 2017. My session was titled as “Harness the Power of Data in a Big Data Lake”. The abstract is as below – Data lake is relatively a new term when compared to all fancy ones since the industry realized the potential of data. … Continue reading →