Category Archives: Architecture

OVERCOMING KEY CHALLENGES IN DATA ANALYTICS (Chapter 3.1 of “All AWS Data Analytics Services”)

Posted on February 28, 2017 by kimschmidtsbrain

3.1  CAPACITY GUESSING In the pre-cloud days, many different types of servers were located on-premises or in a data center. The servers were expensive, each software package that needed to run on each server needed very expensive licenses which had to be … Continue reading →

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AWS re:Invent 2016 Product Announcements

Posted on December 14, 2016 by kimschmidtsbrain

The numerous product announcements made at the most amazing AWS re:Invent ever, 2016, are all over the internet. However, they’re so exciting I can’t help but do my own version. There were ~32,000 attendees this year at re:Invent. It was … Continue reading →

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Amazon Aurora Deep Dive Video Title 1.0: Amazon Aurora Overview is LIVE!

Posted on September 23, 2016 by kimschmidtsbrain

I just finished the first major “Video Topic”, Video Topic 1.0: “Amazon Aurora Overview”, with 10 different Topic Sections, listed below. Some topics are grouped together, totaling 5 separate videos. Each Topic Section has a 1 Quiz Question (if grouped … Continue reading →

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Amazon Aurora Deep Dive – FYI – In Progress

Posted on September 16, 2016 by kimschmidtsbrain

I’ve been making videos on Amazon Aurora: a whole new paradigm shift in relational database management systems (RDBMS). As of September, 2016, Amazon Aurora is the fastest growing service in AWS history – and there’s good reason for that! No … Continue reading →

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