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AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust. Performance and Cost Savings.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Someone on Linkedin recently brought up the point that companies could save gobs of money by swapping out AWS Python lambdas for Rust ones. At least it’s an excuse to […] The post AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust. While it raised the ire of many a Python Data Engineer, I thought it sounded like a great idea.

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Polars vs Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Inside an AWS Lambda. I also enjoy doing simple things, things that have a “real-life” feel to them. I suppose I could be like the others […] The post Polars vs Pandas. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

13 June 2023: AWS. The largest AWS region (us-east-1) degraded heavily for 3 hours, impacting 104 AWS services. We did a deepdive into this incident earlier in AWS’s us-east-1 outage. We’ll also learn how this article contributed to AWS publishing its first public postmortem in two years!

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Top 8 GenAI Courses for AWS to Take Now

KDnuggets

This article is for anyone looking to maximize their use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative AI (GenAI) services. Here are eight courses that range from beginner to expert level.

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AWS Lambdas. Useful for Data Engineering?

Confessions of a Data Guy

For a lot of my Data Engineering career I didn’t really think about or use AWS lambdas, I just saw them as little annoying flies […] The post AWS Lambdas. I guess I’ve taken them for granted over the years, even though they are incredibly useful. Useful for Data Engineering?

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Introduction to AWS Lambda (deployment)

Confessions of a Data Guy

The post Introduction to AWS Lambda (deployment) appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Databricks Wins Four 2024 AWS Partner of the Year Awards

databricks

We’re thrilled to announce that Databricks has been recognized as a winner in multiple categories at the 2024 AWS Partner of the Year.

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