Zeroed on the Best Data Warehouse The advancement of technology generally evokes a range of emotions in people from all walks of life. Some choose to see the cons, while others consider it a way to bring the world closer and solve major challenges. But, as they say, any sufficiently...

How to Automate AMI Backups & Cleanups, using AWS Lambda Is your Dev-ops or Infrastructure management team looking for options for cloud cost optimization and save time by eliminating human errors and the need for dedicated resources (like a standalone server) executing all tasks? Look no further! Automating AMI backups...

Predicting the Future, Using Real-Time Big Data Analytics In our previous blog post, we looked at 4 ways that real-time, big data analytics can give your business a competitive advantage. One of them was that you could use real-time Big Data Analytics to make dynamic changes based on user behavior....

How real-time, big data analytics can be a competitive advantage Real-time, big data analytics, based on cloud. What’s that? It’s certainly not a mishmash of the most trending hashtags on Twitter! There’s more to it. Picture this. You’ve added a shiny new feature to your product and want to see...

Choosing Kong-The API Gateway In the previous blog, ‘A Million Events in 5 Minutes! Know How We Do It.’, we provided a high-level view of the architecture of piStats and how an incoming clickstream event travels through our system to get a visual representation on our real-time dashboards. In this...

A Million Events in 5 Minutes! Know How We Do It. piStats Analytics is designed to consume every activity and event of a user on the client’s site. These events are sent to our systems to extract valuable information like trends and active users that provide an insight to the...

AWS Launches its Data Regions in Mumbai, India Amazon has recently launched its first set of Datacenters in Mumbai, India to cater to cloud computing services here thus, participating in a race for the top cloud provider position in India. With this launch, it has increased its total tally of...

Optimize Your Cloud Migration Strategy Many businesses have started leveraging the cloud- whether private, public or hybrid. The main motivating factor for shifting to cloud for any organization is mainly to increase IT agility, accelerate time to market, reduce operational expenses, lower TCO and redundancy, and significantly increase disaster recovery...

Operational Intelligence – On top of the Business Intelligence The explosion big data has created in recent past is phenomenal. The entire business environment has been flooded with data volumes and the diversity of new data sources. Yet, many organizations still struggle with the analytic opportunities big data provides. Reason...

Spark Vs Flink Businesses today need to pick up the pace of changing market conditions, wherein the data and information are being processed at rocket speed. Since processing the big volumes of data is not the only thing that can suffice, it is also necessary to get the results faster....

Doing Analytics & Being Analytical – Find the difference The moments of rest, a runner takes between the sprints, denotes the downtime that he utilizes to prepare for his next step. To rest, catch the breath and rethink the strategy and approach towards the competition. Similarly, while organizations and individuals...

Effective data governance in the middle of security concerns? There was a time when organizations small and Big, were full of notions that more data means more value. Businesses wanted more information about their customers, their products and their markets. They wanted this information primarily to be able to integrate...

Considerations For Hybrid Mobile Apps Hybrid mobile apps are like any other apps which get installed easily and are available on your phone. You can find them in app stores and with them, you can play games, get social through social media, make financial transactions and much more. Does your...

Start-ups must add cloud migration to their TO-DO list Studies predict that by 202, 80 percent of small business would fully embrace the cloud. The reason of such a strong prediction for small businesses is that cloud migration cuts huge cost. Businesses need not pay for routine maintenance on servers,...

Using TF-IDF Algorithm to Find Relevance Score in Document Queries As the term implies, TF-IDF stands for term frequency-inverse document frequency and is used to determine what words in a corpus of documents might be more favorable to use in a query. TF-IDF calculates values for each word in a...

Demystifying Hybrid Recommender Systems and their Use Cases Recommender systems aim to provide users with personalized online product or service recommendations to handle the increasing online information overload problem and improve customer relationship management. A Recommender system can be distinguished from an information retrieval system by the semantics of its...

How insurance companies can leverage actionable insights After a decade of strong growth, the insurance industry is now grappling with slow growth, rising costs, deterioration distribution structure and stalled reforms. To top it all, most of the Insurance companies are having a High Expense Ratio, Loss ratio, the insurance margin...

Advantages of using Amazon QuickSight Amazon QuickSight is a very fast, easy-to-use, cloud-powered Business Intelligence (BI) service for all your Big Data & Analytics needs. The Amazon Web services claim that all this can be done at marginal cost (1/10th to be precise) of what you spend on your on-premise...

AWS Aurora - Superior Cloud Database AWS Aurora is a highly scalable, fast and durable, MySQL compatible database engine offered by Amazon Web Services[(also, Benefits to Testify the Importance of Amazon EMR)]). It is a fully managed database engine where Amazon RDS handles database provisioning, patching, backup and recovery. With...

Why Performance Parameter Matters in Cloud Computing The decision, to whether move your Organization’s IT to the Cloud is difficult and requires a lot of Research. If you are the CEO of the company, then the probable answers you are looking at is “why so much hype about the Cloud”....