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How to Organise Your Infrastructure as Code

How to Organise Your Infrastructure as Code

DevOps is a cultural shift with immediate focus on maximising the business value by opting better …

AWS Lambda and Endless Serverless Possibilities

AWS Lambda and Endless Serverless Possibilities

Ever since the Amazon introduced the AWS Lambda service at AWS re:Invent 2014, a variety of new …

Goodbye Splunk, Hello Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Goodbye Splunk, Hello Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon today announced Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) - a fully managed Elasticsearch …

Reflections on Apache Drill

Reflections on Apache Drill

I have been playing with Apache Drill for quite some time now. In layman’s terms, Apache Drill …

Rethinking the database with drop-in replacements

Rethinking the database with drop-in replacements

We are observing a new era in database technology space, drop-in replacements with order of …

Visualising CloudFormation Stack

Visualising CloudFormation Stack

If you work with AWS CloudFormation on a day-to-day basis, I think you might be interested in …

DynamoDB or Aurora

DynamoDB or Aurora

Aurora is a new offering from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is advertised as drop-in …

Rise of Elastic Data Warehouse and Database Services

Rise of Elastic Data Warehouse and Database Services

Currently the majority of cloud based database and data warehouse services are provisioned with …

Requirements for stream processing architecture

Requirements for stream processing architecture

In 2005 Stonebraker et al. published a paper that outlined 8 key requirements for stream processing …