Securely Deploying Delta Lake on AWS: Best Practices for Cloud Engineers
2023-02-15
Five tips for Cloud Engineers to deploy Databricks' Delta Lake on AWS safely.
Data Engineering
Delta Lake, Databricks, AWS and the systems behind reliable data platforms.
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The Power of Schema Enforcement in Delta Lake
2023-02-15
Prevent errors and inconsistencies with Delta Lake's robust data management technology.
A Guide to the Delta Lake Transaction Log
2023-02-14
Discover the power of the Delta Lake transaction log - ensuring Data reliability and consistency.
Faster and Cheaper: ARM Graviton vs Intel and AMD x86 AWS EC2
2023-01-20
How Bold Data achieved an astonishing 2.3x improvement by switching from x86 to ARM.
Is Athena Spark a Delta Lake alternative to Databricks?
2022-12-02
Finally. AWS re:Invent 2022 brought the answer to both Databricks and Athena's worst limitations. Athena Spark promises to bring Delta Lake scale-out processing effortlessly and inexpensively.
Delta Lake vs Data Lake
2022-11-02
Should you switch your Data Lake to a Delta Lake? At first glance, Delta Lakes offer benefits and features like ACID transactions. But at what cost?
Amazon bestsellers are big data
2022-05-18
According to an adage, big data is anything too big for Excel, i.e. more than 1,048,576 rows. It is a bit cheek-in-tongue, but, as with many jokes, it is grounded in truth. Many business processes run on Excel to this day. That is an issue when analysing datasets like Amazon product data for valuable insight on pricing, production and supply planning, and new product or category development. Excel cannot load a single country's Amazon bestseller list. Even if you use more scalable systems,...