I have so many thoughts and ideas about where my passion will lead me next. I haven’t yet settled on any one thing for a new career, so I went back to the basics. Listen. Listen to my community. I envision my community as marginalized people in tech. So I have started a meetup groupContinue reading “Befriending Dragons Happy Hour”
Category Archives: Geeky Coolness
Befriending Dragons | #Words4Justice
Today is my last official day at Microsoft. I no longer feel safe, comfortable, or valued working in tech. Going forward I’ll be working to actively disrupt tech culture and systems to reduce harassment and discrimination. Keep an eye on #Words4Justice. 😊 Be kind. Be brave. Go beyond ally to accomplice to actively disrupt bullying and discrimination. cindygross@outlook.com @cindygrossContinue reading “Befriending Dragons | #Words4Justice”
Windows Hyper-V Dragon
After all these years soaring through the data world, from SQL Server 1.11 all the way through today’s modern Big Data technologies, I am making a flight adjustment. My next adventure will be in the land of the Windows Hypervisor: Hyper-V. Last week I started working with my new team and I am already learning to corralContinue reading “Windows Hyper-V Dragon”
Moving Beyond Unconscious Bias – Good People Matter!
Presented at SQL Saturday Oregon on October 24, 2015 by Julie Koesmarno and Cindy Gross Good People We’re good people. As good people we don’t want to think we do things that have negative consequences for others. But sometimes our subconscious can fool us. What we intend isn’t always what happens. We think we’re makingContinue reading “Moving Beyond Unconscious Bias – Good People Matter!”
Big Data for the SQL Eye
SQL Server is a great technology – I’ve been using it since 1993 when the user interface consisted of a query window with the options to save and execute and not much else. With every release there’s something new and exciting and there’s always something to learn about even the most familiar of features. However,Continue reading “Big Data for the SQL Eye”
Hadoop Likes Big Files
One of the frequently overlooked yet essential best practices for Hadoop is to prefer fewer, bigger files over more, smaller files. How small is too small and how many is too many? How do you stitch together all those small Internet of Things files into files “big enough” for Hadoop to process efficiently? The ProblemContinue reading “Hadoop Likes Big Files”
Azure Data Factory: Hub Not Found
You can use the new Azure portal to create or edit Azure Data Factory components. Once you are done you may automate the process of creating future Data Factory components from PowerShell. In that case you can use the JSON files you edited in the portal GUI as configuration files for the PowerShell cmdlets. ForContinue reading “Azure Data Factory: Hub Not Found”
Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal
Creating an HDInsight cluster from the Azure portal is very easy. However, sometimes you want all the choices and best practices explained as well as the “how to”. I have created a series of slides with audio recordings to walk you through the process and choices. They are available as sessions 1-8 of “Create HDInsightContinue reading “Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal”
Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop
Hadoop is the hot buzzword of the Big Data world, and many IT people are being told “go create a Hadoop cluster and do some magic”. It’s hard to know where to start or which projects are a good fit. The information available online is sparse, often conflicting, and usually focused on how to solveContinue reading “Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop”
AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!
This week I helped a client move files from AWS S3 to Azure Storage blobs. Sounds simple, right? Here’s the tricky part… While there are both Azure and AWS cmdlets for PowerShell, they don’t cooperate. Neither has a cmdlet that accepts credentials from the other and neither accepts arbitrary URLs from outside their own cloud.Continue reading “AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!”
