Scaling Containerised Applications on AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) offer numerous solutions – this gives us, as developers, a broad range of optional tools to meet a client’s business objectives, but how do we determine the best solution? This is a situation that we’re always thinking about, so we’re always looking to test possible solutions,…
Using AWS Serverless to Streamline an Automotive Supply Chain [VIDEO] Chief Solutions Architect & Head of PGS Software’s Centre of Excellence - Lukasz Panusz - has recently appeared on an episode of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) “This Is My Architecture” where he was asked to present his cost-effective, performant, and resilient Serverless architecture, created for an automotive industry customer. AWS…
Building A Fast, Simple Data Analyser With Serverless & Amazon Athena Throughout the most recent years, it seems we are always increasingly coming across the term “big data”. Indeed, large companies already have special positions directly related to the processing and analysing of such data sets - but what about those that haven’t already firmly established themselves? As a young software…
Industry 4.0 – Where The World Is Going While everyone may be talking about it, not everyone has fully implemented industry 4.0 technology into their business. In fact, a lot of companies are in two minds over whether it is even here at all yet. For those that have started on the 4.0 journey, these digital solutions represent…
Another 10 Benefits Of Cloud Computing Cloud computing has become the new normal. Numerous companies are starting their software projects directly in the Cloud, or are migrating existing ones there… and with numerous good reasons. In my last post, I explained 10 of the biggest benefits behind Cloud Computing. However, I also quickly realised that 10…
Top 10 Benefits Of Cloud Computing There was a famous prediction from the early years of computing that “there is a world market for maybe five computers”, allegedly attributed to the then CEO of IBM. Now, in 2018, it’s paradoxically become true again. We can risk this statement because, from a logical point of view, there…
10 Reasons Why You Should Adopt Microservices You have probably heard the following sentences numerous times: Microservices are the future of software. Monoliths are nasty. You should migrate. Netflix is doing it, Amazon is doing it, Spotify is doing it. Lists of benefits littered with words like agility, performance, high availability, lower costs, agility, faster time-to-market… Oh…
Top 10 AWS Cloud Trends for 2018 We’ve prepared a breakdown of the technological advances, products, and services that were on everyone’s lips in Vegas last week.
Spark Memory Management Part 2 – Push It to the Limits In Spark Memory Management Part 1 – Push it to the Limits, I mentioned that memory plays a crucial role in Big Data applications. This article analyses a few popular memory contentions and describes how Apache Spark handles them.
Spark Memory Management Part 1 – Push It to the Limits One of Spark's selling points is that it takes 10-100x less time to finish a similar job written as Hadoop Map-Reduce. The trick is to store data reliably in in-memory – this makes repeatedly accessing it (ie. for iterative algorithms) incomparably faster.
