AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. availability. You still need to set appropriate EMRFS retries to provide additional resiliency.

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Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Optimization 85

AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Backtesting is a process used in quantitative finance to evaluate trading strategies using historical data. This helps traders determine the potential profitability of a strategy and identify any risks associated with it, enabling them to optimize it for better performance.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Optimization 88

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

The utility for cloning and experimentation is available in the open-sourced GitHub repository. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data. This ensures that the data lake will still be functional in another Region if Lake Formation has an availability issue.

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Data Architecture Metadata Data Lake Snapshot 67

Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

Most of my days focus on understanding what’s happening in the market, defining overall product strategy and direction, and translating into execution across the various teams. Then when there is a breach, it comes as a shock, “wow, I didn’t even know that application had access to so much sensitive data”. And then there is the Cloud.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

The data from the Kinesis data stream is consumed by two applications: A Spark streaming application on Amazon EMR is used to write data from the Kinesis data stream to a data lake hosted on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a partitioned way.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Uber understood that digital superiority required the capture of all their transactional data, not just a sampling. They stood up a file-based data lake alongside their analytical database. Because much of the work done on their data lake is exploratory in nature, many users want to execute untested queries on petabytes of data.

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OLAP Data Lake Data-driven Snapshot 94