Gaining insights into winning football strategies using machine learning

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGaining insights into winning football strategies using machine learning University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) has partnered with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab to help UIUC football coaches prepare for games more efficiently and improve their odds of winning. Previously, coaches prepared for games by creating a game planning sheet that…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension Starting today, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pglogical extension. pglogical is an open source PostgreSQL extension that helps customers replicate data between independent Aurora PostgreSQL databases while maintaining consistent read-write access and a mix of private and common data in each database. Amazon Aurora pglogical uses…

Automating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda In today’s world, data plays a vital role in helping businesses understand and improve their processes and services to reduce cost. You can use several tools to gain insights from your data, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics or open-source frameworks…

How to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid September 23, 2020: The squid configuration file in this blog post and associated YAML template have been updated. September 4, 2019: We’ve updated this blog post, initially published on January 26, 2016. Major changes include: support of Amazon Linux 2, no…