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Simple Getting data-driven is the main goal for Simple. It’s important for the entire company to have access to data internally. Instead of the analytics and engineering teams to jump...

Short Query Acceleration (SQA) will speed up the execution of short running queries. It does this by selecting certain queries to jump the queue. This can be useful when your...

Gusto Gusto, founded in 2011, is a company that provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits and workers’ compensation solution for businesses. Their business has grown steadily over the years, currently topping...

Introduction With the release of Query Priorities and Automatic WLM, the AWS team has given Amazon Redshift administrators a powerful new way to define and prioritize data workloads. Without using...

Yelp The tech world has changed dramatically since Yelp was launched back in 2004. Eight years later and Yelp started its change. It transformed from running a huge monolithic application...

Table of Contents Drivers of change The Challenge of Data Engineering The worst part of data engineering Summary In data engineering teams the list is long and depends on your...

Fuze is a cloud-based communications and collaboration platform provider. Fuze drives workplace transformation for its customers with data from 2.5 million meetings, 20 million calls, and 33 million messages each...

It is common to connect an application framework like Django to Amazon Redshift. This is useful when using Redshift data in your application, i.e. in an OLTP scenario. Since Amazon...

Introduction The AWS team recently released a new feature of their Automatic WLM that we’re really excited about: Query Priorities. This feature aims to address the main limitation of Auto...