DevOps

AWS EMR Cost & Performance Optimization: A Business-Centric Approach

Introduction AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is an AWS service for filtering big data using open-source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, Presto, and many more. It provides a platform to run your applications without thinking much about the management of the underlying infrastructure. AWS EMR is a...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: BigData
16-Mar-2025

Data Engineering

Configuring AWS Lambda as a Kafka Producer with SASL_SSL and Kerberos/GSSAPI for Secure Communication

Kafka is a distributed streaming platform designed for real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and data integration. AWS lambda, on the other hand, is a serverless compute service that executes your code in response to events, managing the underlying compute resources for you. In organizations where Kafka plays a central role in...

by Avinash Upreti
Tag: BigData
30-Sep-2024

Data Engineering

Building Efficient Data ETL Pipelines: Key Best Practices [Part-2]

In the first part of ETL data pipelines, we explored the importance of ETL processes, and their core components, and discussed the different types of ETL pipelines. Now, in this second part, we will dive deeper into some of the key challenges faced when implementing data ETL pipelines, outline best practices to optimize these processes...

by Yogesh Kargeti
Tag: BigData
15-Sep-2024

Data Engineering

Building Efficient Data ETL Pipelines: Anatomy of an ETL [PART-1]

In today's data-driven world, businesses rely on timely, accurate information to make critical decisions. Data pipelines play a vital role in this process, seamlessly fetching, processing, and transferring data to centralized locations like data warehouses. These pipelines ensure the right data is available when needed, allowing...

by Porush Goyal
Tag: BigData
15-Sep-2024

DevOps

Unlocking Seamless Data Integration in the Cloud with Azure Data Factory

Introduction In today's data-driven world, managing and transforming data from various sources is a very cumbersome task for organizations. Azure Data Factory (ADF) stands out as an extensive and robust ETL and cloud-based data integration service that helps enable businesses to streamline their complex data-driven workflows timely and...

by Chhavi Sharma
Tag: BigData
15-Sep-2024

Big Data, Data & Analytics

Enhancing Workflows with Apache Airflow and Docker

In today's world, handling complex tasks and automating them is crucial. Apache Airflow is a powerful tool that helps with this. It's like a conductor for tasks, making everything work smoothly. When we use Airflow with Docker, it becomes even better because it's flexible and can be easily moved around. In this blog, we'll explain what...

by Bishal Kumar Singh
Tag: BigData
17-Oct-2023

AWS, Big Data

Unlocking the Potential: Kafka Streaming Integration with Apache Spark

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses thrive or falter based on their ability to harness and make sense of data in real time. Apache Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform, has emerged as a pivotal tool for organizations aiming to excel in the world of data-driven decision-making.In this blog post, we'll...

by Ashish Gupta
Tag: BigData
12-Oct-2023

Big Data

Amazon Redshift: A Comprehensive Overview

Introduction In today's data-centric world, making informed decisions is vital for businesses. To support this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a robust data warehousing solution known as Amazon Redshift. Redshift is designed to help organizations efficiently manage and analyze their data, providing valuable insights for strategic...

by Shubham Thakur
Tag: BigData
19-Sep-2023

Big Data, Data & Analytics

Efficient Data Migration from MongoDB to S3 using PySpark

Data migration is a crucial process for modern organizations looking to harness the power of cloud-based storage and processing. The blog will examine the procedure for transferring information from MongoDB, a well-known NoSQL database, to Amazon S3, an elastic cloud storage solution leveraging PySpark. Moreover, we will focus on handling...

by Bishal Kumar Singh
Tag: BigData
18-Sep-2023

Big Data, Data & Analytics

Spark Structured Streaming

In this blog, I will discuss how Spark structured streaming works and how we can process data as a continuous stream of data. Before we discuss this in detail, let’s try to understand stream processing. In layman’s terms, stream processing is the processing of data in motion or computing data directly as it is produced or...

by Ravindra Jain
Tag: BigData
31-Aug-2023

Big Data

No Code Data Ingestion Framework Using Apache-Flink 

The conveyance of data from many sources to a storage medium where it may be accessed, utilized, and analyzed by an organization is known as data ingestion. Typically, the destination is a data warehouse, data mart, database, or document storage. Sources can include RDBMS such as MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres. The data ingestion layer...

by Vikas Duvedi
Tag: BigData
27-Jun-2023

Big Data, Product Engineering

5 Considerations For Building Data Driven Applications

Innovation is at the center of application development. A lot of established companies as well as startups are investing big money in product ideas that have the potential to solve business challenges. While traditional applications are still in place, new age SaaS companies are developing amazing applications for web and mobile keeping...

by Kinshuk D Jhala
Tag: BigData
22-Feb-2017