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Craig Jordan

Author: Craig Jordan

Craig Jordan is an AWS Solutions Architect and member of the AWS Data Solutions for Education team that is developing reusable architectural guidance to help teams like Maryville’s learn and apply AWS analytics and machine learning services to quickly build their own solutions. When he’s not working on technology solutions, he enjoys home improvement projects and opportunities to play piano.

Maryville University

Architecting a Data Lake for Higher Education Student Analytics

One of the keys to identifying timely and impactful actions is having enough raw material to work with. However, this up-to-date information typically lives in the databases that sit behind several different applications. One of the first steps to finding data-driven insights is gathering that information into a single store that an analyst can use […]

Architecting a Low-Cost Web Content Publishing System

Introduction When an IT team first contemplates reducing on-premises hardware they manage to support their workloads they often feel a tension between wanting to use cloud-native services versus taking a lift-and-shift approach. Cloud native services based on serverless designs could reduce costs and enable a solution that is easier to operate, but appears to be […]