On Dec 21, 2020, I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam. I want to state upfront that this is a difficult examination. It took me 3 months of study to prepare for it. If you do not have a study plan you will almost certainly fail. Despite the difficulty and the time … Continue reading What is the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam
Creating a Presto Cluster on EC2
Today, I am going to create a Presto cluster on an AWS EC2 instance. I am aware of AWS ElasticMapReduce, Amazon's Managed Hadoop offering but since this is a technical exercise to learn about Presto internals, we're going to do things the hard way 🙂 Prerequisites I assume you have some technical knowledge, namely Working … Continue reading Creating a Presto Cluster on EC2
Welcome to Norman’s Presto Adventures
I'm working in the tech industry and in a company where Presto is used extensively both for interactive data analysis and ETL. It's a fantastic tool that's performant in interactive data analysis and scales to processing Petabytes of data (if you build it right)