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Cloud Data Lakes - The Future of Large Scale Data Analysis

Tom Tunguz

This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon wrote about how Amazon uses cloud data lakes to operate their business. Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. and onboarding new customers.