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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

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ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 3 - Running pySpark on EMR

In the previous articles (here, and here) I gave the background to a project we did for a client, exploring the benefits of Spark-based ETL processing running on Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) Hadoop platform. The proof of concept we ran was on a very simple requirement, taking inbound files

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ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 2 - Code development with Notebooks and Docker

In the previous article I gave the background to a project we did for a client, exploring the benefits of Spark-based ETL processing running on Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) Hadoop platform. The proof of concept we ran was on a very simple requirement, taking inbound files from a third

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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 would provide a suitable data warehouse platform for them. In this series of blog

Big Data

Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines

One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or Spark? Foo or Bar? (I made that last one up). This wealth

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. I'm pleased to announce that Oracle have agreed for us to make the image (AMI) on Amazon available publicly. This means that anyone who wants to run their own SampleApp v406

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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