I worked with dozens of companies migrating their legacy data warehouses or analytical databases to the cloud. I saw the difficulty to let go of the monolithic thinking and design and to benefit from the modern cloud architecture fully. In this article, I’ll share my pattern for a scalable, flexible…

In the previous post, I described 5 big business problems Amazon is trying to solve with machine learning. However, Amazon changed some of its plans for using machine learning in recent years, and instead of putting all the eggs in a few baskets, it tries to distribute them to many…

A lot has changed since Chris Anderson published a famous 2004 article in Wired about the long tail. Back then, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify were nice ideas benefiting from the growing popularity of the Internet. These tech companies proved that if you understand the value of the long tail and…

What can we learn from how birds count and triathlon races to help us improve software product development? TL;DR: Even if you want to develop a general product that thousands of customers will use, build the first version (fast) for a limited and specific customer/use case. Then, when you want…

Five lessons from buying, driving, and owning a Tesla car about the future of automobiles and the world. On top of the obvious predictions that all cars will be electric and with self-driving capabilities, I've learned a few more essential lessons on the future of the automobile industry from owning…

Most computer vision systems focus on the analysis of a single camera. However, sometimes, it is not enough and you need more eyes. This is the description of a real-life project that uses AWS Panorama to determine the exact location of people on a factory floor by aligning the output…

The best of three worlds, Micro-service for system architecture, Chalice for DevOps, and Jupyter Notebook for IDE, is the most effective combination I know today. This post will go over a couple of examples of using the above triple to simplify the otherwise complicated flow of API development, including software…

Every change introduces a high risk to an enterprise company that must be assessed before its implementation. The increasing cases of cyber-attacks by malicious hackers for ransomware are a real threat to the less cloud-experienced traditional companies. Learning how to secure their newly created cloud environment is a must first…

Weather is affecting many of our actions, and therefore it is a common idea to add weather data into the features of machine learning models. When will farmers buy irrigation products, construction projects order underground pipes, retailers demand more hydration products, people take a…