Platform Journey

Working with IAM policies is painful. This migth help make it easier

If you need to turn on/off resources that depend on a module that uses for_each read on

Our company has been designing cloud architectures for BI and Data Warehousing for a decade in the Amazon cloud. There are several new…

We estimate savings of around 87.5% once we changed our CI/CD process from a dedicated instance to spot instances

I’ve been working with columnar databases for several years. There are many advantages that I’ve internalized using Vertica and Redshift…

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…

I can characterize a project that my company has with one of our customers.

Faster than we expected. Easier than we thought.

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…

Someone asked me which way I would run my data workflows generally through ETL or ELT.

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…

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…

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…

I am sitting in SFO heading home from the AWS San Francisco Summit. Here are the big take aways as I see them…

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…

If you keep listening, you’re going to hear people talk about serverless computing. Here’s a simplified history that projects into the…

About a year ago, a Full360 gaming customer had a requirement to create an analytics data warehouse for in-game events. These events are…

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 released its AMIs for the cloud. The important piece of news in this is that customers can use their oracle licenses on the cloud…

A couple weeks ago, something profound occurred to me about enterprise software. I realized that when it is priced by server or by…

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…

Here at Full 360 we consider ourselves “data centric… technology agnostic”. When faced with a data problem we try to identify the software…

As an AWS Premier partner, and the only partner with expertise in columnar databases in the cloud, Full360 was given earliest preview…

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…

The cloud ecosystem was a-thundering this Friday with Amazon Web Services’ announcement on CloudFormation. Much of it positive, and a whole…

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…