How to manage GPU instances using Karpenter and Bottlerocket
Working with IAM policies is painful. This migth help make it easier
How to fine tune IAM policies used by Terraform
Working with IAM policies is painful. This migth help make it easier
The Efficient Unified Analytic Platform
There’s an ironic story about Jeff Bezos. Several years ago at Re:Invent, when he could be counted on to present the keynote, I watched…
How to create optional resources that depend on modules using Terraforms for_each
If you need to turn on/off resources that depend on a module that uses for_each read on
Converting Enterprise Vertica to EON
If you are considering this move, Congratulations! You are headed in the right direction. EON mode is a giant leap forward for Vertica.
Virtual Team Success: The Ideal Status Meeting
Culture + Tools + Methodology = Virtual Team Success
ElasticDW™️ — The Missing Managed Service for Vertica
Full 360 announces the limited availability of ElasticDW™️, a managed service for Vertica on AWS.
Virtual Team Success: The Ideal Status Report
Culture + Tools + Methodology = Virtual Team Success
Virtual Team Success: Project Management
Culture + Tools + Methodology = Virtual Team Success
The Evolution of Data Warehousing in the AWS Cloud
Our company has been designing cloud architectures for BI and Data Warehousing for a decade in the Amazon cloud. There are several new…
Five Simple Secrets for Running Virtual Teams
I work for a cool company that got rid of its NYC office the year I joined. From that moment forward, everybody in the company of a couple…
Starting and Growing a BI Department from Scratch
Sometimes we fall into opportunities that allow us to start fresh. Not much could be better in that regard than beginning and growing a…
Data Lakes : A Fast Shallow Dive
Let’s start with a fast shallow dive. Structured data lakes are one of the things we’re all about at Full 360. You may have heard of data…
Automated Vulnerabilities Scans without the pain
As you improve your DevOps capabilities and maturity, sooner or later you’re going to want to add vulnerability scans
The Magic of Makefiles
Makefiles can help you get along with your coworkers and move your organization faster.
How using ec2 spot instances on your CI/CD can help you save some money
We estimate savings of around 87.5% once we changed our CI/CD process from a dedicated instance to spot instances
Big Data Analytics vs Data Warehousing
Question: What is the difference between big data analytics and data warehousing?
Divide and conquer with Execution Context
So, If you’re messing with the JVM trying to improve the resources management, after tuning the JVM to have a better performance on your…
How to speed up your gitlab-ci pipeline
When you start using pipelines you get addicted to them, after all you have made a great improvement to your process, but then you start…
Creating and Updating infrastructure from your Continous Deployment/Integration pipeline on GitLab…
I’ve written about things you can do in your CI/CD and just barely about infrastructure as code before, but the thing is, I was not happy…
How to turn your logs into valuable metrics and actionable alarms using Cloudwatch
You don’t need to look for scripts or libraries to push metrics into Cloudwatch anymore!
Should this be part of the Codebase?
In both small and big companies I’ve seen essentials pieces of a project outside the codebase, which I believe is a big mistake, of course…
The Relational DB Headaches I No Longer Have
I’ve been working with columnar databases for several years. There are many advantages that I’ve internalized using Vertica and Redshift…
How to dynamically create Sinks and add Sources in the middle of an Akka-Stream!
If you are here I will assume you know what akka is and what an akka-stream is. In this particular use case we want to move stuff from say…
Why should you care about the infrastructure behind your code?
I was recently asked to add a CORS directive to an API with several months on production, sure, no problem, piece of cake!
Not Data Driven? A Risk Scenario
Let us imagine that you are in the fast food business. Your business model is that you never freeze food, everything is served fresh. So…
Machine Learning at Full 360
I can characterize a project that my company has with one of our customers.
How to use Postman for integrated smoke testing on your CI/CD pipeline
If you are developing stuff chances are you are probably already using Postman. It’s cool, but the thing is most of us don’t realize what a…
AI vs Humans On My Mind
Last week I was in Bogota again. It was less interesting than IAH. In Houston’s new terminal I was accosted by the ‘Stacked’ business…
Adrian Cockcroft & The Pitbull
A new and interesting video by Adrian Cockcroft at AWS validates an approach we have had at Full 360. I like the way he describes the…
Data Mining & Easter Eggs
Q: Why do they call it data mining? Isn’t it knowledge mining?
Preserve Your Legacy
If you are a gearhead like I am, there are few things that get you excited like the choppy rumble of of a hot rod. Of all the tuners, hot…
An ETL / ELT Philosophy
Someone asked me which way I would run my data workflows generally through ETL or ELT.
How To Cloud A Mainframe
Once upon a time there was a mainframe computer. I ignored it. So did you. We were wrong.
It’s Not About The Chart
I think many people are unaware of the fact that analytic applications should be designed to establish a broad consensus with an…
Upsert into Amazon Redshift using AWS Glue and SneaQL | Amazon Web Services
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data…
How to build a custom directive to throttle an akka-http based API
We at Full 360 do API modernization. That means, we take your ancient services and bring it up to date, whether its serverless or cloud or…
Data Lakes: A Deeper Dive
The benefits of a data lake are many. In one way, you can say it is one of the lynchpins of a data-centric cloud architecture. At a simple…
What is the role of a Structured Data Lake in DW?
The Full 360 Approach Our approach is a little different than generic data lakes. We build structured data lakes. A structured data lake is…
Full 360 & The AWS Migration Acceleration Program
I had an opportunity to head up to San Francisco and attend an all day seminar on Amazon’s new Migration Acceleration Program. This is what…
Share Articles From Slack to Twitter and Facebook using reactmoji
How to make the most out of articles being share by your coworkers and keep your social media alive
First Hands On Biscuit
This won’t take long. I’m still in the mood to rave. I’ve fallen in love with my new secret keeper: Biscuit + KMS. Biscuit is a…
The New Data Warehouse Explained
The outfit I work with, Full360 is one of those who have advanced the state of data warehousing. I have been building these applications in…
Redshift Spectrum Initial Impressions
UPDATE: I was notified by AWS contacts that Spectrum does *not* use Athena. It shares the Athena catalog, but the nodes used for the S3…
AWS San Francisco Summit 2017
I am sitting in SFO heading home from the AWS San Francisco Summit. Here are the big take aways as I see them…
The Pitbull Framework: Next-Gen Data Warehousing in the Cloud
I want to begin to tell you a bunch of stories about where we are in our Big Data & Data Warehouse practice at Full360. We’ve been…
Serverless: A Quick and Dirty Overview
If you keep listening, you’re going to hear people talk about serverless computing. Here’s a simplified history that projects into the…
User Defined Load Libraries in Vertica 6
Vertica 6 introduces the concept of UDLs, User Defined Load libraries. These libraries are C++ routines created with the Vertica API…
VoltDB for Easy HTTP Ingestion
About a year ago, a Full360 gaming customer had a requirement to create an analytics data warehouse for in-game events. These events are…
Python Selective Whitespace Remover
- Removes white spaces from your string only when its outside the delimiter you define!
How to containerize your testing script and send metrics to CloudWatch
There are as many concepts of testing as there are people testing stuff. I’m not here to tell you what testing (or QA) is, mainly because…
Oracle Announces Products and AMIs for the Cloud
Oracle released its AMIs for the cloud. The important piece of news in this is that customers can use their oracle licenses on the cloud…
The Serverless Revolution
A couple weeks ago, something profound occurred to me about enterprise software. I realized that when it is priced by server or by…
DevOps The Hard Way
I’m going to be doing more management and ‘glue’ business the next year or so. Part of this business is selling and personifying the value…
Dynamic Data Warehousing of Semi-Structured Data with Snowflake
Here at Full 360 we consider ourselves “data centric… technology agnostic”. When faced with a data problem we try to identify the software…
Dynamic Data Warehousing of Semi-Structured Data with Snowflake
Here at Full 360 we consider ourselves “data centric… technology agnostic”. When faced with a data problem we try to identify the software…
Amazon Redshift — Review and First Impressions
As an AWS Premier partner, and the only partner with expertise in columnar databases in the cloud, Full360 was given earliest preview…
HowTo: Use the Google Authenticator as a virtual MFA Device on the Amazon AWS Console
Amazon has supported the use of a hardware based MFA device. But the issue we have had as a firm that deals with many Amazon accounts…
Integrating AWS CloudFormation and Chef
The cloud ecosystem was a-thundering this Friday with Amazon Web Services’ announcement on CloudFormation. Much of it positive, and a whole…
Oracle Essbase on Amazon EC2 using cubeFlex AMI
I am going to show you how to get started with Essbase using our Amazon Images. Using the AMI, I am able to have a fully installed EPM…