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ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 5 - Summary

This is the final article in a series documenting an exercise that we undertook for a client recently. Currently running an Oracle-based datawarehouse platform, the client asked for our help in understanding what a future ETL and reporting platform could look like, given the current landscape of tools available. You

obiee

ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 1 - Introduction

We recently undertook a two-week Proof of Concept exercise for a client, evaluating whether their existing ETL processing could be done faster and more cheaply using Spark. They were also interested in whether something like Redshift [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/welcome.html] would provide a suitable

Technical

OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI - available for public use

I wrote a while ago about converting Oracle's superb OBIEE SampleApp from a VirtualBox image into an EC2-hosted instance [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/09/obiee-sampleapp-in-the-cloud-importing-virtualbox-machines-to-aws-ec2/] . I'm pleased to announce that Oracle have agreed for us to make the image (AMI) on Amazon available publicly.

Technical

OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2

Virtualisation has revolutionised how we work as developers. A decade ago, using new software would mean trying to find room on a real tin server to install it, hoping it worked, and if it didn’t, picking apart the pieces probably leaving the server in a worse state than it