The Cloud Playbook
Amrut PatilPlaybooks for engineering leaders running multitenant SaaS on AWS who choose predictability over speed: boringly reliable services, controlled cloud spend, and audit-ready compliance.
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TCP #147: The Streaming Pipeline That Does Not Page You
The previous issue showed that streaming incurs operational costs.
Here is how to build a Kinesis-to-S3-to-Athena pipeline so owning it remains sustainable.
The goal is not maximum throughput or minimum theoretical latency.
AWS services...
TCP #146: Most Streaming Pipelines Answer a Question Nobody Asked
Streaming gets chosen for the wrong reason more often than almost any other data architecture decision.
The reason is rarely a documented latency requirement.
It is that streaming sounds modern, while proposing a batch pipeline in a desig...
TCP #145: Athena Optimization, In the Order That Pays
The previous issue showed you how to find the tables driving your Athena scan volume.
This is the system for fixing them in the order that creates the highest return per hour of engineering time.
The order matters.
Partitioning, partitio...
TCP #144: Three Queries That Find Your Athena Cost Problem
Athena spend is one of the most diagnosable costs in a data platform.
It is also one of the least diagnosed.
Athena charges based on data scanned. An analyst writes a query, gets the result, and moves on. The cost appears later as a line...
TCP #142: ETL vs ELT Is Not a Platform-Wide Decision
Most data platform teams answer the ETL versus ELT question once, at the platform level, and apply that answer to every pipeline.
The reasoning is understandable.
One pattern means fewer tools, fewer skills to maintain, fewer failure mode...
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