Shannon Lowder

As I began learning Biml,  I developed my original metadata model to help automate as much of my BI development as I could.  This model still works today, but as I work with more file based solutions in Azure Data Lakes, and some “Big Data” solutions, I’m discovering it’s limitations. Today I’d like to talk…

How quickly do you get from the business coming to you with “we need a data warehouse” to delivering that warehouse?  If you’ve sat through any Biml talk, you’ve undoubtedly heard stories of thousands of staging packages being generated per hour.  You may have even heard tales of source systems being analyzed in hours, rather than…

When you build an Alexa skill you’ve got two rich sources of information describing how users are interacting with your skill.  The first is the data in the Alexa Skills Kit request object.  The request object is the JSON representation of what you said to your Alexa device. Alexa Voice Service(AVS) takes your spoken words…