AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Case Study
How the Allen Institute uses Amazon EMR and AWS Step Functions to process extremely wide transcriptomic datasets
This is a guest post by Gautham Acharya, Software Engineer III at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in partnership with AWS Data Lab Solutions Architect Ranjit Rajan, and AWS Sr. Enterprise Account Executive Arif Khan. The human brain is one of the most complex structures in the universe. Billions of neurons and trillions of […]
Vortexa delivers real-time insights on Amazon MSK with Lenses.io
This post discusses how Vortexa harnesses the power of Apache Kafka to improve real-time data accuracy and accelerate time-to-market by using a combination of Lenses.io for greater observability and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to create clusters on demand.
How SimilarWeb analyze hundreds of terabytes of data every month with Amazon Athena and Upsolver
This is a guest post by Yossi Wasserman, a data collection & innovation team leader at Similar Web. SimilarWeb, in their own words: SimilarWeb is the pioneer of market intelligence and the standard for understanding the digital world. SimilarWeb provides granular insights about any website or mobile app across all industries in every region. SimilarWeb […]
Optimize Delivery of Trending, Personalized News Using Amazon Kinesis and Related Services
Gunosy aims to provide people with the content they want without the stress of dealing with a large influx of information. We analyze user attributes, such as gender and age, and past activity logs like click-through rate (CTR). We combine this information with article attributes to provide trending, personalized news articles to users. In this post, I show you how to process user activity logs in real time using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, and related AWS services.
Decreasing Game Churn: How Upopa used ironSource Atom and Amazon ML to Engage Users
This is a guest post by Tom Talpir, Software Developer at ironSource. ironSource is as an Advanced AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partner and an AWS Big Data Competency Partner. Ever wondered what it takes to keep a user from leaving your game or application after all the hard work you put in? Wouldn’t it be great […]
How SmartNews Built a Lambda Architecture on AWS to Analyze Customer Behavior and Recommend Content
This is a guest post by Takumi Sakamoto, a software engineer at SmartNews. SmartNews in their own words: “SmartNews is a machine learning-based news discovery app that delivers the very best stories on the Web for more than 18 million users worldwide.” Data processing is one of the key technologies for SmartNews. Every team’s workload […]