How to Modernize a Legacy Hbase/Solr Architecture into Amazon using Kinesis, Lambda, and Opensearch

As technology advances and business requirements change, organizations may find themselves needing to migrate away from legacy data processing systems like HBase, Solr, and HBase Indexer. While these systems may have served their purpose in the past, they may no longer be sufficient for the needs of modern data platforms because of the challenges of scalability and maintenance.

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Fundamentals of GIT and GITHUB

This blog describes the process of integrating Source Code with Version Control

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Reducing deployment process execution time in GCP

“Perfect software doesn’t exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software”

  • Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer
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EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle hook? Not so fast…

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks are powerful mechanisms providing the ability for your architecture to respond to Auto Scaling events. A common use case for lifecycle hooks is sending notifications to an Amazon EventBridge which in turn can invoke serverless functions. For more information, checkout this AWS tutorial located here. Event-driven functions are extremely flexible, but they are not always the optimal choice depending on the use case.

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Oracle Far Sync Instances

A remote Oracle Data Guard instance sometimes receives redo data from its primary database, and then, sends that redo data to the other member(s) of the Oracle Data Guard configuration. This activity consumes very little resources in terms of disk space and processing.

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Using Python for data management and reporting

The blog introduces using Python® for data management and reporting. Python uses Jupyter® Notebook to access data sources to explore reading and writing data for generating reports from the source data.

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The importance of GitOps: Moving towards Cloud Native

As your organization adopts Cloud Native architectures, you need to shift your mindset.

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Rackspace Technology and Platform9 partnership simplifies Kubernetes adoption

The word Kubernetes means pilot in Greek—and the platform is piloting a whole new world of possibilities for businesses ready to take advantage of containers.

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How the Onica Elastic Engineering team automated disaster recovery for Amazon RDS instances: Part Two

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

If you haven’t seen it, check out part one of this two-part series before reading about the serverless DR implementation of our solution.

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How the Onica Elastic Engineering team automated disaster recovery for Amazon RDS instances: Part One

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

As organizations move to Amazon Web Services® (AWS®), ensuring you have an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy in place to manage outages is paramount.

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