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Noritaka Sekiyama

Author: Noritaka Sekiyama

Noritaka Sekiyama is a Principal Big Data Architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Analytics services. He’s responsible for building software artifacts to help customers. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling on his road bike.

End-to-end development lifecycle for data engineers to build a data integration pipeline using AWS Glue

Data is a key enabler for your business. Many AWS customers have integrated their data across multiple data sources using AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, in order to make data-driven business decisions. To grow the power of data at scale for the long term, it’s highly recommended to design an end-to-end development lifecycle […]

Build data integration jobs with AI companion on AWS Glue Studio notebook powered by Amazon CodeWhisperer

Data is essential for businesses to make informed decisions, improve operations, and innovate. Integrating data from different sources can be a complex and time-consuming process. AWS offers AWS Glue to help you integrate your data from multiple sources on serverless infrastructure for analysis, machine learning (ML), and application development. AWS Glue provides different authoring experiences […]

Scale your AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs with larger worker types G.4X and G.8X

Hundreds of thousands of customers use AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs work with your code and configuration of the number of data processing units (DPU). Each DPU provides 4 vCPU, 16 GB memory, […]

Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor

In the first post of this series, we described how AWS Glue for Apache Spark works with Apache Hudi, Linux Foundation Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg datasets tables using the native support of those data lake formats. This native support simplifies reading and writing your data for these data lake frameworks so you can more […]

Introducing native Delta Lake table support with AWS Glue crawlers

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Delta Lake is an open-source project that helps implement modern data lake architectures commonly built on Amazon S3 or other cloud storages. With Delta Lake, you can achieve ACID transactions, time travel queries, CDC, and other common use cases on the cloud. Delta Lake is […]

Introducing the Cloud Shuffle Storage Plugin for Apache Spark

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. In AWS Glue, you can use Apache Spark, an open-source, distributed processing system for your data integration tasks and big data workloads. Apache Spark utilizes in-memory caching and optimized […]

Process Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg dataset at scale, part 2: Using AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue supports native integration with Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg. Refer to Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor to learn more. Transactional data lake […]

Process Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg datasets at scale, part 1: AWS Glue Studio Notebook

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Glue supports native integration with Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg. Refer to Introducing native support for Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on AWS Glue for Apache Spark, Part 2: AWS Glue Studio Visual Editor to learn more. Cloud data lakes […]

Accelerate Amazon DynamoDB data access in AWS Glue jobs using the new AWS Glue DynamoDB Export connector

Jan 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Modern data architectures encourage the integration of data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores, enabling unified governance and easy data movement. With a modern data architecture on AWS, you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services […]