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The Big Data hype is a reincarnation of the socialism in IT. Instead of creating small autonomous self-regulating entities Big Data adepts send all kind of junk into the Gosplan (the State Planning Committee, USSR).
The problem is not the volume, the variety or the velocity of data but that the new generation Gosplan is too far from places where data is born. Information sources cannot adapt to real needs and are forced to report everything possible but nothing usable.
Modern interfaces are created by people who sit in crowded rooms behind transparent glass walls. It is no wonder that the results of their creativity show too much unnecessary junk, cannot help with orientation and are miserably fragile.
My 3 favorite impediments to technology changes on the base level in IT.
1. Developers like incremental improvements but they are afraid of global changes.
2. Developers are unwilling to learn something what they do not understand.
3. A lot of today developers are simply unable to work with abstractions.
The problem is not the volume, the variety or the velocity of data but that the new generation Gosplan is too far from places where data is born. Information sources cannot adapt to real needs and are forced to report everything possible but nothing usable.
Modern interfaces are created by people who sit in crowded rooms behind transparent glass walls. It is no wonder that the results of their creativity show too much unnecessary junk, cannot help with orientation and are miserably fragile.
My 3 favorite impediments to technology changes on the base level in IT.
1. Developers like incremental improvements but they are afraid of global changes.
2. Developers are unwilling to learn something what they do not understand.
3. A lot of today developers are simply unable to work with abstractions.
