Small is reliable

Jun. 5, 2014 by

As consultant, I have the privilege of learning from a lot of clients. There are different ways of writing software, and I get to see a lot of them. One

Doing IT right the first time

Mar. 27, 2014 by

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” – Knuth One of traditional challenges of Business Intelligence is that the data is Large. Large being the technical term for data

Becoming an AWS Solutions Architect

Mar. 18, 2014 by

I just passed my AWS Solutions Architect exam. Here’s what I did to pass the exam… Read the rest on the Optimal BI blog.

Redshift Snapshot Sizes

Mar. 11, 2014 by

If you’ve been a database administrator long enough to be good at creating named pipes, like I am, then you have a lot of preconceptions about databases. One of those

Continuous Extract Transform Load (ETL)

Mar. 3, 2014 by

Dilbert infamously pointed out, that the internet itself runs in batches. Everything in computers, from TCP to operating systems to databases to the CPUs themselves natively work with batches. Streaming