Author: Nick Fursa

Principal Solutions Architect and Data Engineer With advanced AWS certifications, Nick has deep expertise implementing complex relational, NoSQL, and micro-batch, near real-time data platforms.

Aurora Serverless v2: Faster, Cheaper, Better or Why We Are Sticking to Aurora Serverless v1

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of database services to its customers, including Aurora Serverless, which is a serverless relational database service that provides on-demand auto-scaling and pay-per-use billing. Recently, AWS announced a new version of Aurora Serverless, called Aurora Serverless v2, which promises to deliver faster performance and lower costs compared to the previous version, Aurora Serverless v1. In this article, we will take a closer look at Aurora Serverless v2 and compare it to Aurora Serverless v1 to see if it is worth upgrading.

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How to Deploy AWS Lambda over 250MB in Size with Serverless

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AWS Lambda is a great serverless solution by itself and together with Serverless, it is easy to develop and deploy cloud applications. Lambda is great but not perfect as it comes with its own set of limitations. One of which is size – the total size of the deployed unzipped package cannot exceed 250MB. 

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UK COVID Vaccination Coverage by Age & Ethnicity

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) & VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)

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In recent times, artificial intelligence has taken the field of healthcare by storm with its precise diagnostic skills in deploying more detailed, resourceful, and impactful interventions in patient’s care. There has been talks of AI doctors ousting human physicians in the future, this is highly unlikely but what would rather play out is AI doctors providing quality help to assist physicians in making better clinical decisions or even take charge of some decision in certain critical healthcare fields like radiology.

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Which Database Should I Use?

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Databases fulfill a vital role in our businesses. They allow us to maintain, update, and edit our stored information quickly and securely. We use databases for a wide variety of data storage needs like inventory tracking, customer relationship management, payroll, data analysis, networking, and much more. Doing this efficiently means we can support the wider business functions and help the company excel at its goals.

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IT Resourcing: Onshore vs. Offshore

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No matter what business you are in, your IT is critical to your operations. Having secure, reliable, and high performing communications and technology resources is an essential part of any business strategy. This means that companies are investing more resources in IT departments to ensure they have the best possible people, equipment, and software.

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On-premise to AWS Cloud Migration

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The advantages of moving the infrastructure from on-prem to a cloud based solution are obvious. More

Data Engineering

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Data engineering doesn’t have to be complicated. From data management and cloud migration to data-driven design and architecture, the engineers at Cloud7 develop secure, best-in-class solutions tailored to the exact requirements of your organization.

Whether you’re looking to integrate and share data with external partners or need help securely migrating on-premises data to the cloud, our data engineering specialists got you covered.

Connecting AWS Lambda to MySQL via ODBC (PYODBC)

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Running your code serverless in Lambda is great: it doesn’t require resource provisioning, managing a server and you pay as you go. Is it perfect? Not quite. Among the other issues natural to any serverless implementation there is one with… drivers, of course. With traditional implementations drivers are installed across the entire system, which is no problem as they are centrally registered and referenced. With serverless deployment, however, the references are broken which inevitably leads to some noticeable pain in the neck. Something I have experienced firsthand not so long ago while trying to deploy Python Lambda with MySQL ODBC connection (using pyodbc). 

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Sales Retrospective

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IVR Systems

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Whether you are a small business needing a phone system to provide your customers with a dynamic personalized experience or an enterprise level call center serving thousands of callers every day, our team has the necessary expertise to provide your business with an IVR solution that fits your specific situation.