We often think of “data” as an objective form of information, as something we just observe and record into computers and write on spreadsheets. In reality...

On April 9, Amazon Web Services will be hosting its San Francisco AWS Summit at the Moscone Center.

Introduction When you’re building or improving your data pipeline, batch data processing seems simple. Pull data from a source, apply some business logic to it, and load it for later...

Simple Getting data-driven is the main goal for Simple. It’s important for the entire company to have access to data internally. Instead of the analytics and engineering teams to jump...

Short Query Acceleration (SQA) will speed up the execution of short running queries. It does this by selecting certain queries to jump the queue. This can be useful when your...

Gusto Gusto, founded in 2011, is a company that provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits and workers’ compensation solution for businesses. Their business has grown steadily over the years, currently topping...

Introduction With the release of Query Priorities and Automatic WLM, the AWS team has given Amazon Redshift administrators a powerful new way to define and prioritize data workloads. Without using...

Yelp The tech world has changed dramatically since Yelp was launched back in 2004. Eight years later and Yelp started its change. It transformed from running a huge monolithic application...