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Outstanding AWS online instructors

At one time or another I have been a member of the following online training organizations in the past five years: Pluralsight Linux Academy Udemy Lynda.com A Cloud Guru

May I say at the outset that it will be grossly unfair to other instructors if you only go by what I recommend. Reason being, I haven’t spent the same amount of time at each site nor have I enrolled in all of the courses that…

The evolution of AWS Administration

There was a time that AWS was sorely lacking Administration tools. The entire landscape has changed and Cloudwatch Events is at the heart of it. We have Systems Manager which integrates with AWS Config, Cloudwatch in general and Cloudwatch Events in particular. Aside from AWS Config remediation, there are the Step Functions and Lambda that can assist Administrators to automate many tasks to help…

    Unlike Hadoop and NoSql Databases, MPP is not a new technology. Yet, it is a strong contender in the “Big Data” space. Sql Server PDW applianceboasts up to 100x performance gains over legacy data warehouses. Moreover, it is a fault tolerant, horizontally scalable, high capacity RDBMS. Simply put, it is an excellent solution for companies that are wholly vested in RDBMS but need to break…

Sql Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW)

Fari Payandeh

8/26/2015

Unlike Hadoop and NoSql Databases, MPP is not a new technology. Yet, it is a strong contender in the “Big Data” space. Sql Server PDW applianceboasts up to 100x performance gains over legacy data warehouses. Moreover, it is a fault tolerant, horizontally scalable, high capacity RDBMS. Simply put, it is an excellent solution for companies that are wholly vested in RDBMS…

September 13, 2014 Fari Payandeh

As I mentioned last year this is not a scientific assessment of the job market. It only covers the DC area and it doesn’t take into account the overall improvement or decline of the job market.

Comparing to last year this time  R programming language, and Amazon Web Services are the big winners followed by Java, Big Data, Red Hat, Python, Hadoop,  and Ruby. I…

First it was Tableau Public Edition, and then Microstrategy Desktop. Now, SAS is offering its software for free to encourage learning.  According to their site the advantage is that everything runs locally on the Desktop and you don’t have to store your data in the cloud. I have a feeling the big vendors are becoming a little concerned about the open source programming language R.

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      Fari Payandeh

Twenty five years of experience working with Data in different capacities ranging from Developer to Storage Administrator. I have worked for Database vendors namely Informix and Oracle as a DBA/Instructor. Also worked for Informatica in a consultancy capacity. I started my career as a C programmer, learned Databases (Oracle, Sql Sever, MySql), Java Technology, and led teams…