Tag: Architecture

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In Part 1 of this post, we provided a solution to build the sourcing, orchestration, and transformation of data from multiple source systems, including Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, into a managed modern data platform. Roche partnered with AWS Professional Services to build out this fully automated and scalable platform to provide the foundation for their machine learning goals. This post continues the data journey to include the steps undertaken to build an agile and extendable Amazon Redshift data warehouse platform using a DevOps approach. The modern data platform ingests delta changes from all source data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. We often read news about sustainability and how governments and large corporations are working to build a better world for the future. But, have you ever asked yourself what you can do? As a software architect, how can you make a difference by addressing sustainability challenges? In this first post of Let’s Architect!, a series of posts that gathers content to help software architects and tech leaders explore new ideas, case studies, and technical approaches, we provide materials to help you design sustainable architectures and create awareness on sustainability. How do you optimize the compute layer ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Niel Dunnage. Posted in Technical | January 21, 2022 9 min read This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The architecture reflects the four pillars of security engineering best practice, Perimeter, Data, Access and Visibility. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Apache Ranger for security policy management Updated Ranger Key Management service Before diving into the technologies it is worth becoming familiar with the key security principle of a layered approach that facilitates defense in depth ... Read More

Feed: Planet NoSQL. Author: Keshav Murthy. INTRODUCTIONYou know Oracle, but need to a good overview of Couchbase, a modern NoSQL database? You're in the right place. This will speed up your understanding of Couchbase.  It’s not intended to evaluate all the features or performance.  Since Oracle is a relational database with SQL as the main query language, it's normal for developers to view other databases from SQL point of view. In this article, we'll compare and contrast Oracle with Couchbase from SQL point of view.  You'll get a good feel for the architecture and capabilities of Couchbase. We won't do ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many customers are modernizing their data architecture using Amazon Redshift to enable access to all their data from a central data location. They are looking for a simpler, scalable, and centralized way to define and enforce access policies on their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). They want access policies to allow their data lake consumers to use the analytics service of their choice, to best suit the operations they want to perform on the data. Although the existing method of using Amazon S3 bucket policies to manage access control is an ... Read More

Feed: Planet NoSQL. Author: Keshav Murthy. A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.                 William Strunk Jr., Elements of StyleIn the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann has written about traits and trade-offs for data infrastructure while designing modern applications. He has given an example architecture for a data system that combines several components. I used this example for the article Example Architectures for Data-Intensive Applications. That article explored just the Couchbase features and functions.A recent twitter thread talked about how AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ryan Jaeger. Government departments work hard to meet required security framework controls for cloud service configuration and deployment, and obtaining an Authority to Operate (ATO) can sometimes take up to 18 months. To assist with this process, Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the open-source AWS Secure Environment Accelerator (ASEA), a tool designed to help deploy and operate secure multi-account AWS environments. Designed in consultation with the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity (CCCS) and the Treasury Board of the Government of Canada, ASEA automates the configuration of AWS services to help meet the CCCS Medium Cloud ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The AWS Architecture Blog highlights best practices and provides architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership pieces and how-tos. Check out the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine, also published by our team, which offers a selection of the best new technical content from AWS! A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working AWS Solutions Architects and other blog post writers either, so thank you to them as well! Without further ado, the following 10 posts were the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from December’s new and updated content. This new pillar in the Well-Architected framework helps organizations learn, measure, and improve their workloads using environmental best practices for cloud computing. Did you know that the shared responsibility model also applies to sustainability? You can use the pillar to track your progress against best practices to support sustainability. Your development teams can also use this new pillar and Well-Architected ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The goal of the AWS Architecture Blog is to highlight best practices and provide architectural guidance. We publish thought leadership and how-to pieces that encourage readers to discover other technical documentation such as solutions and managed solutions, other AWS blogs, videos, reference architectures, whitepapers, and guides, training and certification, case studies, and the AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine. We welcome your contributions! A big thank you to you, our readers, for spending time on our blog this past quarter. Of course, we wouldn’t have content for you to read without our hard-working writers either, so thank you ... Read More