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Data Ingestion: The Front Door to Modern Data Infrastructure

AWS offers a rich set of ingestion services. This guide provides industry use cases and a cheat sheet to help you choose the right one for your organization.

July 16, 2025

by Junaith Haja

· 2,701 Views · 3 Likes

Dashboards Are Dead Weight Without Context: Why BI Needs More Than Visuals

BI engineers must build context-rich, code-driven dashboards that enable decisions. Actionable pipelines and semantic clarity are now the standard.

July 15, 2025

by Venkata Murali Krishna Nerusu

· 4,414 Views · 1 Like

Designing Configuration-Driven Apache Spark SQL ETL Jobs with Delta Lake CDC

Simplify complex ETL pipelines and enable scalable, maintainable data processing with Spark SQL and Delta Lake Change Data Capture.

July 14, 2025

by Janaki Ganapathi

· 2,141 Views

Contract-Driven ML: The Missing Link to Trustworthy Machine Learning

Model accuracy means nothing if data breaks in production. Learn how data contracts ensure reliability, prevent silent failures, and protect ML performance.

July 10, 2025

by Sana Zia Hassan

· 2,169 Views · 1 Like

Build Real-Time Analytics Applications With AWS Kinesis and Amazon Redshift

Build real-time analytics with AWS Kinesis for streaming, AWS Lambda for processing, and Amazon Redshift for scalable data analysis.

July 10, 2025

by Danil Temnikov

CORE

· 3,130 Views · 4 Likes

Top 5 Trends in Big Data Quality and Governance in 2025

Explore the top 5 trends in data quality and governance for 2025, from real-time validation to AI-powered checks and privacy-first practices.

July 10, 2025

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 2,134 Views · 2 Likes

Breaking Free from ZooKeeper: Why Kafka’s KRaft Mode Matters

Kafka shifts from ZooKeeper to KRaft mode for better scalability, faster recovery, and lower complexity, using Raft-based quorum for metadata management.

July 9, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 2,050 Views · 4 Likes

The AWS Playbook for Building Future-Ready Data Systems

Gone are the days when teams dumped everything into a central data warehouse and hoped analytics would magically appear.

July 9, 2025

by Junaith Haja

· 3,191 Views · 7 Likes

How Developers Are Driving Supply Chain Innovation With Modern Tech

This blog shows how developers use modern tech to transform supply chains with smart, code-first solutions and real-time systems.

July 7, 2025

by Jatin Lamba

· 1,951 Views · 1 Like

Understanding k-NN Search in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch, a powerful distributed search engine and k-NN Search with text embedding model integration makes it ideal for modern AI-driven search solutions.

July 7, 2025

by Govind Singh Rawat

· 4,185 Views · 7 Likes

Are Traditional Data Warehouses Being Devoured by Agentic AI?

DSS systems are designed around the logic of human decision-making as the ultimate consumer. However, in Agentic AI era, the final "consumer" is likelier to be an agent.

July 4, 2025

by William Guo

· 2,153 Views · 4 Likes

The Shift to Open Industrial IoT Architectures With Data Streaming

Modernize OT with Data Streaming, Kafka, MQTT, and OPC-UA to replace legacy middleware, enabling real-time data + scalable cloud integration.

July 4, 2025

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 2,886 Views · 1 Like

How Predictive Analytics Became a Key Enabler for the Future of QA

Predictive analytics turns QA into a proactive process, using data and ML to spot defects early, speed up releases, and reduce bugs by up to 30%.

July 4, 2025

by Nidhi Sharma

· 1,640 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying LLMs Across Hybrid Cloud-Fog Topologies Using Progressive Model Pruning

Deploying LLMs at the edge is hard due to size and resource limits. This guide explores how progressive model pruning enables scalable hybrid cloud–fog inference.

July 2, 2025

by Sam Prakash Bheri

· 2,256 Views · 1 Like

Replacing Legacy Systems With Data Streaming: The Strangler Fig Approach

Modernize legacy systems without the risk of a full rewrite. Strangler Fig + data streaming enables scalable, real-time transformation.

July 1, 2025

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 1,530 Views · 4 Likes

Transform Settlement Process Using AWS Data Pipeline

Modern AWS data pipelines automate ETL for settlement files using S3, Glue, Lambda, and Step Functions, transforming data from raw to curated with full orchestration.

June 30, 2025

by Prabhakar Mishra

· 1,874 Views · 2 Likes

DevOps at the Edge: Deploying Machine Learning Models on IoT Devices

Deploying ML models on IoT devices using DevOps practices enables scalable, low-latency intelligence at the edge without managing cloud infrastructure.

June 25, 2025

by Bhanu Sekhar Guttikonda

CORE

· 4,975 Views · 4 Likes

How Trustworthy Is Big Data? A Guide to Real-World Challenges and Solutions

Big data only delivers value when it's reliable. Identify and fix trust issues like schema drift, outliers, and silent errors using Deequ and Great Expectations.

June 25, 2025

by Vivek Venkatesan

· 1,862 Views

Optimizing Data Pipelines in Cloud-Based Systems: Tools and Techniques

Learn how to build and optimize data pipelines in cloud-based systems to process and transfer vast amounts of data effectively.

June 24, 2025

by Anil Jonnalagadda

· 19,138 Views · 8 Likes

Storage-Computing Integration vs. Separation: Architectural Trade-offs, Use Cases, and Insights from Apache Doris

Discover the pros, cons, and use cases of storage-computing integration vs. separation, with real-world insights from Apache Doris’s hybrid architecture.

June 24, 2025

by Darren Xu

· 2,189 Views · 1 Like

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