01 Dec AWS Re:Invent 2017
37,000ft Inasight Induction! So for most of us, our first day at a new company is a bit nondescript...
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16 May Streaming data generation
In our RAMP platform architecture, one challenge we've had to address is how to simulate the injection of streaming data. We need this for demonstration purposes, but also to simulate load, test monitoring and alerting etc. Our solution uses AWS Lambda to pull sample data...
19 Apr Elastic as a customer and competitor to AWS
It's a tricky dynamic for Elastic. Elastic's hosted Elasticsearch/Kibana offering runs on AWS, but AWS are also eating into their potential market with their own purely open-source offering. All the bells and whistles that Elastic Cloud provides via its proprietary X-Pack additions are not offered by...
29 Nov Business data anomaly detection using stream-based processing and Amazon Kinesis Analytics
Recently we've been performing "on the fly" anomaly detection on a stream of business data to look for exceptions that a human monitoring process cannot identify, either from a quality/capability or sheer volume point of view. Simple thresholding is also too crude to identify the anomalies we...