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There is a great chance your business is already collecting significant amounts of data from numerous sources, whether from transactions, apps, customer interactions or other sources. However, this data is most likely locked away in data silos or not used to its full potential. Using the power of Data & Analytics, you can gain insights to optimize operations, drive innovation and deliver value to your company and your clients. iOLAP leverages a wide array of Data & Analytics products and services to build scalable and secure modern analytics platforms ready to meet your future needs.  

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## Client Description
iRobot is a global consumer robot company that designs and builds thoughtful robots and intelligent home innovations that make life better. iRobot introduced the first Roomba robot vacuum in 2002. Today, iRobot is a global enterprise that has sold millions of robots worldwide. iRobot’s product portfolio features technologies and advanced concepts in cleaning, mapping and navigation. Working from this portfolio, iRobot engineers are building robots and smart home devices to help consumers make their homes easier to maintain and healthier places to live.

## Challenge
iRobot is focused towards building a next generation data platform. Millions of robots across the globe generate enormous amounts of telemetry and sensor data needed across multiple departments to provide better customer service, engineer better robots, and identify new products and services.  Additional data is needed to understand mobile application interactions, the manufacturing pipeline, and customer service incidents.  Due to the volume, variety, and velocity of these different sources, a well architected data platform was needed that ensured security, stability, and scalability.  Moreover, with global data sovereignty and PII regulations, iRobot needed a solution to protect and segregate data assets appropriately.  

## Solution
iOLAP inherited an architecture that was not able to scale and was constantly failing on basic data ingestion.  iOLAP quickly took an inventory of assets, designed a roadmap, and began implementing the next generation framework.  We opted to utilize more AWS managed services which by nature are more fault tolerant and scalable.  Spark jobs were replaced with Lambda, Firehose, and Data Pipeline.  An expensive NoSQL database was replaced by ElastiCache and Athena.  Solutions were introduced to eliminate data loss further upstream in the ingestion.  In Redshift, we implemented proper dimensional models with appropriate compression, sorting, and distribution.  
## Benefits
iRobot’s data platform can now support any workload regardless of volume, velocity, and variety of data.  Infrastructure costs are significantly lower and business users have more trust in their data.  iRobot is now exploring ways to leverage these data assets outside the scope of cleaning floors.
  
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## Client Description
Pioneer Natural Resources Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company engages in onshore oil and gas drilling, exploration, and production in the United States. Its 11,000-plus gross producing wells mine about 85 million barrels of oil each year.  

## Challenge
Pioneer was using several vendors for its IOT data analytics. In spite of using several vendors they were still challenged with integrating data between these vendor data silos. And data was not in a uniform consistent format. An in-house solution was necessary to avoid paying vendors and also to bring data in-house for data exploration, advanced deep analytics that helps business improve operations and save costs.  

## Solution
iOLAP helped Pioneer architect, build & develop a Hadoop platform (Cloudera) for storing and processing data. Data was processed in real-time and as well as in batches. IOT sensor data was processed in real-time using Cloudera, StreamSets, Spark, Impala, Hive technologies. SpotFire was used for reporting. Microsoft Azure was used as IAAS cloud platform. DataStax Enterprise (Cassandra) was used for real-time analytics/model scoring, while Hadoop was used for batch processing and model training. Data Lake was built to support cross-platform analytics between data from data warehouses, IOT sensors & historians.  

## Benefits
The new Hadoop platform enabled Pioneer to integrate all its structured, unstructured & semi-structured data in one place (data lake). By bringing IOT sensor data in-house, Pioneer was able to run critical models to predict equipment failures, improve well operations resulting in significant cost saving. Users were able to seamlessly query both real-time and batch data using various tools and get data in consistent format.
  
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Running critical models to predict equipment failures, improve well operations resulting in significant cost saving.

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## Client Description  

The Houston Airport System provides a safe and dynamic air services network that fosters economic vitality for the transportation industry and facilitates a strong level of global connectivity for diverse and growing population living throughout the greater Houston region. Airports managed include George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) which had nearly 42 million passengers in 2016; William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), which had nearly 13 million passengers in 2016; and Ellington Airport (EFD)/Houston Spaceport, which supports the operations of the U.S. military, NASA and a variety of general aviation tenants. Collectively the three-airport system served almost 55 million passengers in 2016.  


## Challenge  

HAS needed real-time insights into airport performance, such as aircraft taxi times, arrival and departure rates, reasons for delays, incidents, and carrier specific information.  


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iOLAP proposed a new architectural change to facilitate higher scalability for processing and integrating large amount of data from disparate sources.  iOLAP is integrating data with Enterprise Voice, thus delivering a natural interface for data queries that can be accessed by a mobile airport management team.  


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HAS infrastructure will support any workload regardless of volume, velocity, and variety of data. The new solution approach provides higher scalability, stability and improved performance with low cost. 
  
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**What stands behind a quality application or service?**

For developers, that is probably making sure that the application or software that is delivered works as intended. To achieve that, there are a few issues that must be tested and handled before the release:

- Is the system failing in any circumstances? What is the reason?
- Is it fast?
- Can it work under pressure? (I.e. does it work well even when the load is extensive?)
- Are there any security concerns?
- Is the response time satisfactory? What about CPU usage? Are throughput and latency working good enough during all occasions? (average vs. heavy load)

Some of those problems can be identified early in the development, while performing unit and integration tests during CI/CD process. But most of the time, this kind of testing will not find bottlenecks and unexpected behaviors that happen during high levels of traffic. Before we can be sure that our app is free of those, we must test it under load. Load testing can help figure out all the capabilities (and incapabilities) of a certain application or its part, no matter if it is serverless or server based.

Let us jump into practical knowledge and show how to load test your application or service, while keeping the cost of load testing low. Also, for the purpose of demonstration, we will be using Amazon Web Services as our cloud platform.


## What tool should you use?

So how can we load test at scale without having a high-end testing infrastructure? To save the day (and your wallet), here comes Artillery.io. It is an open-source tool for testing APIs. Artillery makes it easy to test your services for performance and functionality quickly, easily and without need to maintain any servers or testing infrastructure. If we run Artillery in cloud, we can then bypass limitations of our own resources.


## Artillery.io
Artillery is a modern, powerful, and easy to use performance testing toolkit. It is designed for testing backend systems, such as API services or application backend, regardless of what protocol it speaks or what language in which it is written. Artillery supports HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.io out of the box, and can be configured to support other protocols as well.

Artillery is typically used across teams responsible for delivery, testing, and operating production backend systems. It is used in various scenarios, which include:

– Running ad-hoc load tests against individual APIs or microservices as part of a development process to explore their performance characteristics, and make performance optimizations if needed

– Running tests against staging/feature environments as part of a CI/CD pipeline

– Large-scale load testing before production release, or to prepare systems for heavy traffic


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Artillery consists of Artillery Code – a free, open source tool, which can be used to write and run load and functional tests, and Artillery Pro – a commercial package for enterprise teams which adds additional features. In this post we will show free version of Artillery. To eliminate any constraints of our local network and computing power, we can run Artillery on AWS Cloud9 instance.


## AWS Cloud9

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that offers code editing, running, and debugging with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Also, it is prepackaged with essential tools for popular programming languages like Python and JavaScript. AWS Cloud9 comes with a terminal that includes privileges to the managed Amazon EC2 instance which is hosting your development environment and authenticated AWS Command Line Interface. This makes it easy to quickly run commands and directly access AWS services. If the backend is hosted on AWS, we can combine Artillery and Cloud9 for cheap and effective load testing tool.

**To create Cloud9 instance:**

1. Log into your AWS account and go to the Cloud9 console

2. Click the “Create environment” button

3. Name your instance (you can add description too if you want)

4. Configure environment settings – for this tutorial following is used:

- Environment type: direct access
- Instance type: t2.micro
- Platform: Amazon Linux
- Cost-saving setting: After 30 minutes (default)

5. Review name and setting, then click the “Create environment” button.

If everything went well, you should see a loading screen. When the setup is done, Cloud9 instance should be ready for usage, and your screen should look something like this:

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## Load testing serverless endpoint
  
For this post, we created a serverless endpoint that will be load tested using Artillery. This endpoint will accept username and password as an input, and it will write that data into DynamoDB database. Although not very useful, this example will show you how to test endpoints quickly and easily.

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The Artillery configuration file test.yaml is configured to create ten requests per second over 2-minute duration. This equates to 600 requests per minute, which is probably higher than endpoint like this would get. Our payload will be read from users.csv file, with each row representing one user.

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We execute the Artillery test with the command artillery run test.yaml. Our test concludes with the following results:

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Over 1200 requests, the median response timer is 55.5 ms. The p95 response time shows that 95% of all responses are served within 87 ms. The slowest response of 239.4 ms is caused by AWS Lambda cold starts.

Since this process inserts data into DynamloDB table, we can also see how many write capacity units (WCUs) are consumed by the test. Go to DynamoDB console, select your table, and click under Metrics tab. There you should see several different graphs. If you select Write capacity one, you should see results like this:

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## Conclusion
In this blog post, we explored cheap and easy ways to perform load testing on applications. Artillery presents itself as a versatile and cheap tool for load testing backend systems. It is free, fast, and easy to configure and include in existing testing suite solutions. The proverb “time is money” fits here perfectly, with Artillery saving both!







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Your Excel users do important work. Your Excel “Power-Users” do inspiring work. They may not know it yet, but they both are primed to elevate your business insight capabilities using what they already know. This is because Excel’s most powerful features have been re-imagined with scale in mind in Microsoft’s Power BI Service, and your Excel Power Users are surrounded with use cases ready to make the jump. You just have to ask them.

In this article we will first draw a direct line between Power BI’s feature set, and their Excel origins, as a way of explaining where your Excel-to-Power BI use cases begin. We will then share an iOLAP client story where interviewing one Excel Power-User led to an opportunity to eliminate hundreds of scheduled and ad-hoc reports with one Power BI Solution. We’ll close by examining what are the factors behind “Power BI Project Readiness” and why your Excel Power-Users are uniquely equipped to contribute.
  
If your Excel Power-Users are at all familiar with the Excel features known as Power Pivot and Get & Transform (also known as Power Query), then they already have experience with Power BI’s core feature set and the languages (DAX and M) that power them! Power BI, released to the public in 2015, was essentially spun off from these “Power” features in Excel 2013*, which added significant database and graphical capabilities to Excel’s ever-expanding footprint. Despite this humble beginning, Power BI has gone from being a catch-up software in the race for augmented analytics technology, to becoming the Microsoft’s keystone to realizing a full-fledged platform for Analytics and BI within the Office ecosystem. In fact, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead both in terms of vision and ability-to-execute in this space, as awarded by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant[1].
  
So where do Power BI’s strengths begin, and Excel’s end? It’s first important to recognize what role Excel plays to a Power User. A keen comparison could be drawn, of all places, from the professional kitchen; namely, the chef’s knife. Most cooks wouldn’t trade their chef’s knife for anything, because it’s an extension of themselves that has rewarded their mastery of technique. Try to sell them on a slice-and-dice mandolin, a complicated food processor, or even a handy garlic press, and they may respond with surprising methods to do the same thing with no more than a cutting board and a knife in hand. So too is the relationship between software and Power-User. For daily driving, rapid prototyping and small-to-medium scale data volumes, Excel can become great when applied with skill. Where Excel falls short is when those same features become fickle and easily broken, thus disrupting flow. A tool that dared to enter their daily routine must broaden their capabilities without snuffing out what makes them great in their original skillset. For our cook it might be a stand mixer that can knead bread and churn ice cream unattended, thus giving back their time and saving their shoulders from injury. For the Excel user, how about a beautiful mobile dashboard without gimmicks, that replaces the daily tedium of fixing a PivotChart on SharePoint Excel Services, thus saving them grief from their boss? What if they could leverage their core competencies into big accomplishments?
  
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Where the real strength of Power BI comes from, is in those features that may not even occur to an Excel Power-User, who may be used to employing their ingenuity with VBA to solve complex problems. An iOLAP client story tells us about the value of consulting directly with Excel Power-Users and helping them to interpret use cases that exceed their original articulation of the root problem. A fast-casual restaurant chain contracted iOLAP to develop a Power BI solution to replace their previous system in a one-for-one feature parity in order to enjoy the benefits of improved visualizations and ease of use. The universe of users was small: VPs, District Managers (DMs), and one lone financial analyst. Upon iOLAP’s unveiling of the first iteration of the solution, the analyst spoke up with a previously undisclosed need: they needed the ability to export large amounts of data in a format identical to their prior system, in order to use a VBA script to generate individualized store-level reports catered to each General Manager (GM). That same VBA script would then email the reports to the GMs, one by one.

On further examination, the root cause emerged: GMs were expected to see only their own store’s data, not others. Similarly, the DMs were allowed only to see information for their own district; they frequently made ad-hoc requests as well, which had to be carried out manually by the analyst. Because Excel lacks any meaningful security (especially at the row level), no one report could be exposed to all of the Managers, even in a web context. Stated plainly, there’s no good way in Excel to filter data down to what one user is supposed to see, while preventing them from also seeing others’ data.

iOLAP would soon propose and develop a solution using Power BI’s RLS (Row-Level Security) feature. An administrator (the analyst) would be able to assign users and groups to roles in the Power BI service; they can then write DAX expressions (similar to Excel functions) that dynamically expose data based upon which user is active. Now the GMs could be brought on to Power BI services and presented with up-to-date dashboards with exactly the data they’re meant to see. Furthermore, the analyst could interpret ad-hoc requests from DMs into design-once/use-forever dashboards. And yes: Excel extracts would still be available to every user, only this time as a self-service feature in Power BI. All this meant that the client’s KPI distribution strategy was no longer tied to VBA scripts; instead a robust business intelligence framework would take its place, with an Excel Power-User-turned-Power BI Superhero analyst at the helm.
  
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It’s no mistake that consulting with an Excel Power-User was so fruitful, and their transition to Power BI so promising. Because they forge their skills on the frontiers of their organization, where business logic is being codified and data wrangling is an artform, their work makes possible the determination of BI Project Readiness[2]. Their best workbooks are living case studies, complete with feasibility assessment with respect to data availability and quality. Most importantly, they are vital partners for championing progress because they can speak to what’s to be gained – time saved, risk reduced, and much more.

Power BI presents a clear on-ramp for your Excel Power-Users to level up their capabilities, not only in a hands-on sense but also as a stakeholder in broader analytics projects. Because so many of Excel’s features map directly forward to Power BI, they’ll often find their existing workbooks are prototypes for Power BI’s dashboards. And because Power BI provides a best-in-class analytics platform, the lessons learned from using it will make them better Excel users in turn.

* This is an abridged telling. Those “Power” features trace back to SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services). In fact, Power Pivot is literally an embedded version of SSAS within Excel.

In this article we will first draw a direct line between Power BI’s feature set, and their Excel origins, as a way of explaining where your Excel-to-Power BI use cases begin.

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## Introduction
  
As organizations strive to extract valuable insights from their ever-growing data volumes, migrating to a modern, scalable, and high-performance data warehousing solution becomes paramount.
  
Amazon Redshift, a fully managed cloud-based data warehousing service, offers a multitude of benefits for organizations seeking to harness the power of their data. 
  
In this blog post, we will explore the high-level benefits of migrating to Amazon Redshift and how it can revolutionize your data analytics infrastructure.
  
  
## Cost Optimization Made Simple

Managing on-premises data warehousing infrastructure can be costly and resource-intensive. With Amazon Redshift, you can eliminate the need for upfront investments in hardware, maintenance, and capacity planning. 
  
Redshift follows a pay-as-you-go model, where you only pay for the storage and compute resources you consume. This elasticity allows you to optimize costs by scaling your cluster up or down based on your workload demands. 
  
Additionally, Redshift's compression techniques significantly reduce storage requirements, further reducing costs without sacrificing performance.
  
To utilize optimal cost with AWS Redshift, take note of the following:
  
- **Right-Size your Redshift Cluster**: Scale your Redshift cluster based on workload demands to avoid overprovisioning and minimize costs.
- **Utilize Redshift Spectrum**: Query data directly from Amazon S3 to avoid unnecessary duplication and storage costs.
- **Data Compression**: Use Redshift's efficient compression techniques to reduce storage requirements and improve query performance.
- **Data Lifecycle Management**: Implement policies to manage data retention, tiering, and archiving for cost-effective storage.
- **Query Optimization**: Optimize SQL queries to minimize data scanned during execution, improving performance and cost efficiency.
- **Reserved Instances and Savings Plans**: Purchase Reserved Instances or Savings Plans to secure discounted rates for predictable usage.
- **Monitor and Analyze Cost Metrics**: Regularly review cost reports and metrics to identify areas for cost optimization and make informed decisions.
  
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## Data Integration

Amazon Redshift simplifies data management by offering a fully managed service. AWS takes care of infrastructure provisioning, software updates, security, and backups, enabling your team to focus on data analysis and driving insights. 
  
Redshift integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, allowing you to leverage services like AWS Glue for data cataloging and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for secure access control. 
  
The intuitive management console and APIs make it easy to manage and monitor your data warehouse, simplifying administrative tasks and enhancing productivity.
  
Things to consider:
  
- **Data Preparation**: Cleanse, transform, and structure your data to align with Redshift's requirements.
- **Choose the Right Integration Method**: Select the appropriate integration method, such as AWS DMS or AWS Glue, for your needs.
- **Optimize Data Transfer**: Efficiently transfer data to Redshift by considering factors like network bandwidth and volume.
- **Leverage Data Warehousing Best Practices**: Design a suitable schema, define proper distribution and sort keys, and use Redshift features for efficient data loading and unloading.
- **Use Automation and Orchestration**: Automate tasks and workflows with tools like AWS Step Functions and AWS Glue.
- **Monitor and Optimize Performance**: Continuously monitor and optimize data integration performance using Redshift's monitoring tools.
- **Maintain Data Quality**: Implement data validation checks, cleansing, and deduplication processes to ensure data quality.
- **Ensure Data Security**: Implement strong security measures, including access control, encryption, and following security best practices.
  
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## Scaling and Execution
  
One of the standout advantages of Amazon Redshift is its ability to scale effortlessly. With Redshift, you can scale your data warehouse seamlessly from gigabytes to petabytes of data, accommodating the growing needs of your business. 
  
Redshift's massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture enables high-performance query execution across distributed nodes, allowing for lightning-fast response times even with complex analytical queries involving vast datasets. 
  
This scalability and performance boost empowers organizations to process large volumes of data quickly and derive valuable insights in near real-time.
  
Things to consider:
  
- **Cluster Sizing**: Scale your Redshift cluster based on workload demands to optimize resource utilization.
- **Distribution Styles**: Choose the appropriate distribution style for your data to ensure efficient query execution.
- **Sort Keys**: Define proper sort keys to enhance query performance and minimize data movement.
- **Query Optimization**: Optimize SQL queries to minimize data scanned and improve execution speed.
- **Workload Management**: Utilize Redshift's workload management features to prioritize and manage query queues effectively.
- **Monitoring and Tuning**: Continuously monitor and fine-tune performance using Redshift's monitoring tools.
- **Concurrency Scaling**: Enable concurrency scaling to handle spikes in query workload without impacting performance.
- **Automation and Orchestration**: Leverage automation tools like AWS Step Functions to streamline scaling and execution processes.
  
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## Data Analytics
  
Redshift provides a robust and flexible analytical environment to support a wide range of data analytics needs. It integrates with popular business intelligence (BI) tools, such as Tableau, Power BI, and Looker, allowing analysts and data scientists to visualize and explore data easily. 
  
Redshift's compatibility with standard SQL enables seamless migration of existing SQL-based queries and applications. 
  
Moreover, Redshift offers advanced analytics capabilities through integration with AWS services like Amazon Machine Learning (AML) and Amazon QuickSight, allowing you to perform predictive analytics and generate interactive visualizations effortlessly.
  
Things to look for if you want to get the most out of data analytics with Redshift:
  
- **Data Modeling**: Design an effective data model to structure and organize your data for analysis.
- **ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)**: Extract data from various sources, transform it to meet analysis requirements, and load it into Redshift.
- **Query Optimization**: Optimize SQL queries to maximize performance and minimize data scanned.
- **Advanced Analytics**: Leverage Redshift's capabilities for advanced analytics, such as window functions, user-defined functions, and data aggregation.
- **Data Visualization**: Utilize visualization tools like Amazon QuickSight or third-party solutions to create interactive dashboards and reports.
- **Machine Learning Integration**: Integrate Redshift with AWS machine learning services like Amazon SageMaker for predictive analytics and data-driven insights.
- **Real-time Analytics**: Enable real-time analytics using Redshift Spectrum to query data directly from Amazon S3.
- **Monitoring and Optimization**: Continuously monitor performance, fine-tune queries, and optimize Redshift's configuration for efficient data analytics.
  
  
## Data Protection
  
Data security is a top priority for organizations, and Amazon Redshift provides a secure environment for your data. Redshift offers encryption at rest and in transit, ensuring that your data is protected from unauthorized access. 
  
You can also integrate Redshift with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage user access and permissions effectively. AWS maintains compliance certifications for various industry standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC, ensuring that your data remains compliant with regulatory requirements.
  
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## Conclusion

Migrating to Amazon Redshift offers a plethora of benefits that can transform your data analytics capabilities. 
  
With its scalability, high performance, cost-effectiveness, simplified data management, advanced analytics capabilities, and robust security features, Redshift empowers organizations to process, analyze, and derive insights from massive volumes of data. 
  
Whether you are a small startup or a large enterprise, Amazon Redshift provides a flexible and powerful solution to fuel your data-driven decision-making and unlock the full potential of your data.
  
Although this blog is more of a high-level nature, we hope that these points have convinced you to migrate to AWS Redshift – feel free to thank us later.


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