What the heck is technical debt? Technical debt creates overhead and friction on an organization and stifles innovation. This article provides some simple ways to identify, measure and reduce technical debt. What Is Technical Debt? Technical debt is not a direct cost in financial terms, but rather a concept. Simply, technical debt creates overhead as…
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Projects & other thoughts on a variety of technology topics.
Digital Simplified
What does the term digital even mean? In today’s context, it is cliche and it’s used repeatedly as a way to describe a company’s culture and operating model. The term is also often used as a target and aspirational state for a transformation – a digital transformation. For starters, in order to successfully transform from…
State of the Digital Union
What is the current state of your digital union? Below, are some simple questions that can have very complex and profound answers for your digital business. In the journey to digital maturity, I’d recommend you start by making the investment to study and baseline your environment first by asking your organization these questions. A simple…
Eating The Digital Elephant … uh, I mean Dragon
An overview of some simple ways to get started on your company’s digital transformation journey and becoming a Digital Dragon. Establish Top-Down Support From Executive Operating Team Collaborative support from the top is rocket fuel for a company on the journey to becoming digital. Create a council or digital community of practice made up of…
Why Does The Cloud Cost So Much? Maybe It’s Your Fault.
Note: These are some of my personal views on how to get to the cloud (economically). It’s not intended to be an indictment of the cloud. In fact, the cloud is amazing. But with great power comes great responsibility. AWS, Azure and GCP have transformed the way in which technology services are consumed. I’d like…
90 Day Journey to the Cloud
Between March and June 2019, while in the role of Data & Analytics Platform Leader, I led an effort to migrate one of McKesson’s large enterprise data warehouses to the cloud. In August 2019, I delivered this presentation to a group of approximately 100 technologists in the Phoenix metroplex around the 90 Day Journey to…
Microservices, Fast Data and Healthcare
This is a project is for technical demonstration purposes only. For more information on WTKM, please visit the website or check out the GitHub repo. Overview WTKM is a set of ideas, tools, architectures and techniques for performing analytics on healthcare data sets. WTKM attempts to answer important healthcare questions, like will you survive your…
DriveScale SCI and Clearsense Overview at Strata Big Data Conference
https://vimeo.com/238845420 While CTO as Clearsense, I deployed the DriveScale SCI solution into our own cloud. Clearsense is a smart data organization based in Jacksonville, Florida that is re-imagining and simplifying data analytics to help healthcare organizations realize measurable value from their data. Our world-class team combines extensive data science expertise with clinical and operational heritage to…
Using Hortonworks HDP and HDF at Clearsense
Check out this article and the associated videos where I discuss using Hortonworks at Clearsense. DRIVING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE Clearsense is seeing great results with its initial algorithms for code blue (cardiac arrest) and sepsis prediction. The team is looking forward to developing solutions around reducing costs for…