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Building a serverless architecture for data collection with AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is one of the best solutions for managing a data collection pipeline and for implementing a serverless architecture. In this post, we'll...
46 Big Data Terms Defined
Organizations must deal with the collection and storage of continuously-growing data, and then harvest it to capture value. "Big Data," as its call...
Big Data: Amazon EMR, Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin – Part 2 of 2
In the first article about Amazon EMR, in our two-part series, we learned to install Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin on Amazon EMR. We also learne...
Big Data: Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, and Apache Zeppelin – Part 1 of 2
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) provides a platform to provision and manage Amazon EC2-based data processing clusters.Amazon EMR clusters are inst...
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Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
If you want to deliver digital services of any kind, you’ll need to compute resources including CPU, memory, storage, and network connectivity. Which resources you choose for your delivery, cloud-based or local, is up to you. But you’ll definitely want to do your homework first.Cloud ...
Microservices Architecture: Advantages and Drawbacks
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The 9 AWS Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud.As the market leader and most mature p...
AWS Certification Practice Exam: What to Expect from Test Questions
If you’re building applications on the AWS cloud or looking to get started in cloud computing, certification is a way to build deep knowledge in key services unique to the AWS platform. AWS currently offers nine certifications that cover the major cloud roles including Solutions Archite...
Building Ansible Playbooks Step-by-Step
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S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon’s S3
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What Exactly is a Cloud Architect and How do You Become One?
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Prerequisites to Learn Cloud Computing – Introduction
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How to Use AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is for managing your AWS services from a terminal session on your own client, allowing you to control and configure multiple AWS services.So you’ve been using AWS for awhile and finally feel comfortable clicking your way through all the services....
What is Cloud Foundry? Key benefits and a real use case
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How Does Cloud Computing Work?
Whether you're looking to become a cloud engineer or you're a manager wanting to gain more knowledge, learn the basics of how cloud computing works.Are you wondering about how cloud computing actually works? I'll explain the basic principles behind this technology. Cloud computing pre...
AWS CLI: 10 Useful Commands You May Not Know
The AWS CLI should be your best friendThe AWS console is certainly very well laid out and, with time, becomes very easy to use. However if you are not using the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) from your local terminal, you may be missing out on whole lot of great functionality and sp...